Get the Plain-Text Body of an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the text/plain content type. It reads the plain-text representation already present in the email object rather than generating one from HTML. This example sets a plain-text body and reads it back.

Background: The plain-text body is the fallback representation of a message — the version shown when HTML can't or shouldn't be rendered, and the form usually preferred for search, indexing, and accessibility. GetPlainTextBody targets it specifically; if the message contains only HTML, this returns empty (check with HasPlainTextBody), so a robust extractor falls back to GetHtmlBody when needed.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;
    const char *plain;

    //  Demonstrates the GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the
    //  text/plain content type.  It reads the plain-text representation already present in the
    //  email object.

    email = CkEmail_Create();
    CkEmail_putSubject(email,"GetPlainTextBody example");

    CkEmail_SetTextBody(email,"Hello, this is the plain-text body.","text/plain");

    //  Retrieve the text/plain body.
    plain = CkEmail_getPlainTextBody(email);
    printf("%s\n",plain);


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }