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I solved this problem by pasting into a text frame. That allowed me to perform validity checks on the result and once I'd determined that that that I had pasted was indeed text, I simply loaded the contents of the text frame into a variable. [Long time since I've constructed a sentence with three consecutive 'that's.]

However, I'm back here because a search on doScript threw up this topic.

The language parameters for doScript in the JavaScript and Visual Basic look odd: the choice is among: JavaScript, Visual Basic and Unknown. Am I right in thinking that only a Windows machine can run Visual Basic and only a Mac AppleScript (I presume so). Is "Unknown" a mistake here? Or is setting it the same as not including the parameter at all?

Does InDesign ignore the file extension when executing this command? What if I give it a filename like fred.js and say it is an AppleScript (assuming I can find out how to do that)? Does the AppleScript parameter trump the .js extension?

I was under the impression that the doScript command could be used to run scripts that were in a variable, but that does not appear to be the case based on the description in the Scripting Guide.

Dave