Read/Write text on clipboard

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	CString source;

	//put your text in source

	if(OpenClipboard())

	{

		HGLOBAL clipbuffer;

		char * buffer;

		EmptyClipboard();

		clipbuffer = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_DDESHARE, source.GetLength()+1);

		buffer = (char*)GlobalLock(clipbuffer);

		strcpy(buffer, LPCSTR(source));

		GlobalUnlock(clipbuffer);

		SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT,clipbuffer);

		CloseClipboard();

	}

How to get text off of the clipboard

This is easy really but here it is for completeness
	char * buffer;
	if(OpenClipboard())
	{

		buffer = (char*)GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
		//do something with buffer here 
		//before it goes out of scope

	}

	CloseClipboard();