Thread: How to Get Clipboard Data as a String in C

Hello, I need to get data from the clipboard as a string, so that I can traverse the string and do work on possibly each character of the string.

Here is the code I have:

Code:

int main()
{
    OpenClipboard(NULL);
    char *str;
    HANDLE hData;
    hData = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
    str = (char*)GlobalLock(hData);
    CloseClipboard();
}

The problem is, when I later try to access the character at str[0], the program crashes.

Thanks for your help.