#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Win32::Clipboard;
use FileHandle;

my $clipboard = Win32::Clipboard();

#open the log file
my $file = 'c:\temp\clip.txt';
open(OUTPUT,">>$file") or die "open: $!";

binmode OUTPUT;
autoflush OUTPUT 1;

print "Clipboard being saved to $file\n";
print "To exit, CNTL-C out of this window.\n\n\n";

while (1) {
    $clipboard->WaitForChange();
    my $text = $clipboard->GetText();
    my $now = localtime();
    print "$now: writing " , substr($text,0,40) , "... to $file\n";
    print OUTPUT "$now\n$text\n";
}

exit;

END { close OUTPUT or die "close: $!"; }
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