Pasting clipboard into numbers

I have a script that reads a file to clipboard without opening, I want to be able to write this data to a numbers file in the same way, without opening. Is this possible??
I successfully get the data to clipboard but come up with errors -49 on writing to file.

Off-hand, this does not seem possible. You are copying a non-Numbers file and then, I guess, trying to append it to a Numbers document, which would result in garbage. Or maybe you are trying to paste it into a cell/table of a Numbers document but that, too, would be garbage if it would work at all like it seems you intend (actually, it simply pastes the file name into the cell).
I am pretty sure you will have to open both applications. The first one to interpret the source file and copy the correct contents to the clipboard. The second (Numbers) to be able to paste the data where you want it to go. At best, you might be able to write a script that interprets the source data and it might be theoretically possible to edit a Numbers document directly but I would not recommend doing so if you value your document.
Can you be more specific about what you are trying to accomplish?
Message was edited by: Badunit

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