Remove a Single Related Item from an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.DropRelatedItem method, which removes the related item at a given zero-based index. A related item is typically an embedded image or style sheet referenced from the HTML body (via a cid: link or Content-Location). This example adds a related style sheet, then removes it by index, printing the count before and after.

Background: Related items live in the message's multipart/related enclosure and are indexed from 0 to NumRelatedItems - 1. Removing one by index is useful when editing a received message — for example stripping a tracking pixel or an unwanted embedded image — while leaving the HTML body and any other related resources in place. To remove them all at once, use DropRelatedItems.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;

    //  Demonstrates the DropRelatedItem method, which removes the related item at a given
    //  zero-based index.  A related item is typically an embedded image or style sheet
    //  referenced from the HTML body.

    email = CkEmail_Create();

    //  Set an HTML body that references a related style sheet by name (Content-Location).
    CkEmail_SetHtmlBody(email,"<html><head><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"styles.css\"/></head><body>Styled.</body></html>");

    //  Add the related item (becomes index 0).
    CkEmail_AddRelatedString2(email,"styles.css","body { color: navy; }","utf-8");
    printf("NumRelatedItems before = %d\n",CkEmail_getNumRelatedItems(email));

    //  Remove the related item at index 0.
    CkEmail_DropRelatedItem(email,0);

    printf("NumRelatedItems after = %d\n",CkEmail_getNumRelatedItems(email));


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }