---
title: NSPasteboard.ReadingOptions
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: appkit/nspasteboard/readingoptions
---

# NSPasteboard.ReadingOptions

Options that specify how to interpret data on the pasteboard when initializing pasteboard data.

## Declaration

```swift
struct ReadingOptions
```

## Overview

Overview You can specify only one option. If you don’t specify an option, the system uses the default asData.

## Topics

### Options

- [asData](appkit/nspasteboard/readingoptions/asdata.md)
- [asString](appkit/nspasteboard/readingoptions/asstring.md)
- [asPropertyList](appkit/nspasteboard/readingoptions/aspropertylist.md)
- [asKeyedArchive](appkit/nspasteboard/readingoptions/askeyedarchive.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](appkit/nspasteboard/readingoptions/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [ExpressibleByArrayLiteral](swift/expressiblebyarrayliteral.md)
- [OptionSet](swift/optionset.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)
- [SetAlgebra](swift/setalgebra.md)

## See Also

### Reading data

- [readObjects(forClasses:options:)](appkit/nspasteboard/readobjects(forclasses:options:).md)
- [NSPasteboard.ReadingOptionKey](appkit/nspasteboard/readingoptionkey.md)
- [pasteboardItems](appkit/nspasteboard/pasteboarditems.md)
- [index(of:)](appkit/nspasteboard/index(of:).md)
- [data(forType:)](appkit/nspasteboard/data(fortype:).md)
- [propertyList(forType:)](appkit/nspasteboard/propertylist(fortype:).md)
- [string(forType:)](appkit/nspasteboard/string(fortype:).md)