Null characters - Clipboard Limitations

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Clipboard Limitations

The Windows clipboard cannot be used to process text that contains null characters (ASCII code 0). This is because the clipboard contents are defined as null terminated, and operations on it may halt prematurely. Note that this is a Windows limitation – not a TextPipe limitation. Binary data should be place in a file for TextPipe to process it.

Regular expression limitations

While TextPipe's Perl pattern matcher DOES allow nulls to be search for, TextPipe's egrep implementation does not allow null characters to be searched for.