Reading from the clipboard with Swift 3 on macOS

Question

I\'m a beginner with Swift, and I\'m trying to figure out how can I read what has been copied to the clipboard On macOS (Swift 3)? I\'ve searched a lot but can\'t seem to find a

Answer 1

Times have changed. In Swift 3+ you would do it like this: (if you are only interested in strings)

func clipboardContent() -> String?
{
    return NSPasteboard.general.pasteboardItems?.first?.string(forType: .string)
}