Pasting excel data into a blank DataGridView - Index out of range exception

Question

I have an excel sheet with the following:

So, what I am trying to achi

Answer 1

Have your gridview columns defined, if not you have to define the columns first.

private void PasteClipboard(DataGridView myDataGridView)
{
    DataObject o = (DataObject)Clipboard.GetDataObject();
    if (o.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
    {
        string[] pastedRows = Regex.Split(o.GetData(DataFormats.Text).ToString().TrimEnd("\r\n".ToCharArray()), "\r\n");
        foreach (string pastedRow in pastedRows)
        {
            string[] pastedRowCells = pastedRow.Split(new char[] { '\t' });
            using (DataGridViewRow myDataGridViewRow = new DataGridViewRow())
            {
                myDataGridViewRow = (DataGridViewRow) myDataGridView.RowTemplate.Clone();
                for (int i = 0; i < pastedRowCells.Length; i++)
                    myDataGridViewRow.Cells[i].Value = pastedRowCells[i];

                myDataGridView.Rows.Add(myDataGridViewRow);
            }
        }
    }
}

IF not definced columns

private void PasteClipboard(DataGridView myDataGridView)
{
    //Create COlumns in datagridView
    myDataGridView = new DataGridView();
    myDataGridView.Columns.Add("col1", "Col1");
    myDataGridView.Columns.Add("col2", "Col2");
    myDataGridView.Columns.Add("col3", "Col3");
    myDataGridView.Columns.Add("col4", "Col4");

    DataObject o = (DataObject)Clipboard.GetDataObject();
    if (o.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
    {
        string[] pastedRows = Regex.Split(o.GetData(DataFormats.Text).ToString().TrimEnd("\r\n".ToCharArray()), "\r\n");
        foreach (string pastedRow in pastedRows)
        {
            string[] pastedRowCells = pastedRow.Split(new char[] { '\t' });
            using (DataGridViewRow myDataGridViewRow = new DataGridViewRow())
            {
                myDataGridViewRow = (DataGridViewRow) myDataGridView.RowTemplate.Clone();
                for (int i = 0; i < pastedRowCells.Length; i++)
                    myDataGridViewRow.Cells[i].Value = pastedRowCells[i];

                myDataGridView.Rows.Add(myDataGridViewRow);
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

In case you are dealing with Unicode here is the code to paste to a DataTable that is binded to a the DataGridView

        DataObject o = (DataObject)Clipboard.GetDataObject();
        if (o.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
        {
            string[] pastedRows = Regex.Split(o.GetText().TrimEnd("\r\n".ToCharArray()), "\r\n");
            foreach (string pastedRow in pastedRows)
            {
                string[] pastedRowCells = pastedRow.Split(new char[] { '\t' });
                var temp = dt1.NewRow();
                for (int i = 0; i < pastedRowCells.Length; i++)
                    temp[i] = pastedRowCells[i];
                dt1.Rows.Add(temp);
            }
        }