How to assign contents of clipboard to array in openoffice BASIC macro

I'm trying to create a rudimentary glossary macro for a LibreOffice/OpenOffice .odt file. It will go to the end of the document and paste a list of selected words(found by regex) as a unique set (no doubles)

Where I'm falling down is that once the text has been copied to the clipboard, I need to assign the contents to a variable so that I can create a set.

In OpenOffice's implementation of BASIC, how does one assign the contents of the clipboard to a new variable?

To be clear: I don't need the Paste function, I need to manipulate the contents of the clipboard as an Object before calling Paste

A rough draft of what I'm trying to do is:

dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:Copy", "", 0, Array())

rem -------------- PROBLEM IS BELOW -------
Dim oModuleUICommandDescription As Object, myText$(),aCommand
myText = thisComponent.currentSelection(0)

rem -------------- PROBLEM IS ABOVE -------

rem -------------- Followed by an array comparison to get a unique set

i = FreeFile()
Open "/path/to/my/BASIC.txt" For Output As i
Print #i, myText.string
Close #i

Solution

So, as far as I can see the answer is that there isn't a simple built-in way to do this.

However, it is possible by using a custom created function posted here(not mine) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Writer/005

and using that function to assign contents to the variable.

The upper sub here relies on the function defined below it.

Sub WriteClipboardtoTxtFile()
    Dim sText As String
    Dim myTextFile As String
    Dim i%
    findAllTags_Switches()
    rem  ###########     ASSIGNMENT OCCURS JUST BELOW
    sText= (getClipboardText)
    rem ################ ASSIGNMENT OCCURS JUST ABOVE
    sText = Replace (sText," ",Chr(10))
    rem Replace white spaces with returns
    MsgBox(sText)
    i = FreeFile()
    Open "/path/to/my/file" For Output As i
    Print #i, sText
    Close #i
    
    
End Sub ' InsertClipboardTexttoVariable


Function getClipboardText() As String
    '''Returns a string of the current clipboard text'''

    Dim oClip As Object ' com.sun.star.datatransfer.clipboard.SystemClipboard
    Dim oConverter As Object ' com.sun.star.script.Converter
    Dim oClipContents As Object
    Dim oTypes As Object
    Dim i%

    oClip = createUnoService("com.sun.star.datatransfer.clipboard.SystemClipboard")
    oConverter = createUnoService("com.sun.star.script.Converter")
    On Error Resume Next
    oClipContents = oClip.getContents
    oTypes = oClipContents.getTransferDataFlavors

    For i = LBound(oTypes) To UBound(oTypes)
        If oTypes(i).MimeType = "text/plain;charset=utf-16" Then
            Exit For
        End If
    Next

    If (i >= 0) Then
        On Error Resume Next
        getClipboardText = oConverter.convertToSimpleType _
            (oClipContents.getTransferData(oTypes(i)), com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass.STRING)
    End If

End Function ' getClipboardText

To use in the OpenOffice macro editors, copy and paste the code in so that the new function can be called.