> On 04 Jan 2016, at 07:34, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:21 AM, Andy Burnett <andy.burn...@knowinnovation.com> >> wrote: >> >> I often find that I need to do simple manipulations to passages of text, >> e.g. remove all carriage returns, or extract email addresses etc. >> >> Pasting the text into a Playground doesn't work because there is always an >> apostrophe, or line break or... etc. and the playground complains. >> >> Is there a way to tell a Playground to just ignore the text, and give me a >> handle to its contents, so that I can then do something like >> >> playgroundId contents splitOn:Character space. >> >> Alternatively, is there another object that would be more appropriate? >> Playground would be really useful just because it is in the menu, and always >> available. > > The Playground does not yet allow you to do that. But, you can use the > Clipboard: > > Clipboard clipboardText splitOn:Character space.
I do this a lot: using #clipboardText is a way to get to a copied string without any problems. You can also do a Print It on 'Clipboard clipboardText asString' which will render the string using the Pharo quoting conventions. > Cheers, > Doru > >> Cheers >> Andy > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "Value is always contextual."
