Inconsistent results when copying from Numbers

[Jack_Brannen]

I have a macro designed to select a short row of text from a Numbers spreadsheet (5 columns, 37 characters), copy it, “remove styles,” and then parse it with a regular expression.

KM seems to perform the “remove styles” step inconsistently:

• Sometimes it converts the copied text to tab-delimited strings.
• Sometimes it converts the copied text to newline-delimited strings.
• Sometimes it returns “no text in clipboard.”

Results are inconsistent with the exact same row of text over and over.

I have inched through the macro with the debugger to ensure it’s not a timing/speed issue. What’s up?

[ccstone]

Hey Jack,

We've established that iWorks apps can have clipboard problems.

Copying in all iWorks apps often gives No Text in Clipboard

Hey James, If you use the Clipboard Viewer utility to see what Numbers puts on the clipboard in the first place, you’ll find an almost unbelievable number of data types. It’s not that surprising (to me) that your macro is choking on something here and there, although it looks like it might be a bug @peternlewis needs to address – as there is a simple NSSringPboardType available and a public.utf8-plain-text type available. I’m curious about what data-types are in the worksheets that are fail…

-Chris

[Jack_Brannen]

Curse you, Tim Cook!!!

@ccstone Thanks for your help.