Issues clearing the _Clipboard

[dano]

I cannot clear the clipboard.  I have tried:

_Clipboard$ = ""

The clipboard stays the same.  Thinking that the code behind this command might be a tad picky I tried:

a$ = ""
_Clipboard$ = a$

Nope again...clipboard is still the same.

Is this a bug?  I am using version 3.14.0, but I did not see this in the change log for 3.14.1 so I did not try it there.

The following prints "ON THE CLIPBOARD" both times:

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a$ = "ON THE CLIPBOARD"

_Clipboard$ = a$

Print _Clipboard$

_Clipboard$ = ""

Print _Clipboard$

The out put is:
ON THE CLIPBOARD
ON THE CLIPBOARD


hmmm...