Simple snippet to recall how you copy/paste *text* to/from clipboard in c++ win32

clipboard_w32.cpp

// ------- COPY
{
  char some[256]; // your text here, zero ended
	OpenClipboard(GetDesktopWindow());
	EmptyClipboard();
	HGLOBAL hg=GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE,ARRAYSIZE(some)+1);
	if (!hg)
	{
		CloseClipboard();
		return;
	}
	memcpy(GlobalLock(hg),some, ARRAYSIZE(some)+1);
	GlobalUnlock(hg);
	SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT,hg);
	CloseClipboard();
	GlobalFree(hg);
#endif
}

// ------ PASTE
{
	if ( !IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_TEXT))
		return;

	if ( !OpenClipboard(GetDesktopWindow()) ) 
		return;

	HGLOBAL hg=GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
	if (hg)
	{
		LPCSTR strData =(LPCSTR)GlobalLock(hg);
		if ( strData )
		{
      // Your TXT in StrData
			GlobalUnlock(hg);
		}
	}
	CloseClipboard();
}