Capture the Clipboard’s Contents

With the Win32::Clipboard extension, the way I provide input to scripts has changed. For example, I have one script that formats network packets captured by the Ethereal network tracing program. When network traffic is captured, all I need to do is copy a particular packet to the Windows Clipboard. The script continuously monitors the Clipboard for changes. When a change is detected, the script retrieves the packet of data from the Clipboard, decodes it, and formats it so that it's legible to humans. The script then writes the formatted data back to the Clipboard. Therefore, with this script, all I need to do is run Ethereal, copy a packet to the Clipboard, then paste the formatted results into an email or a report. . . .