Get a Related Item as Text

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetRelatedString method, which returns the text of a related item (with CR line-endings), interpreting the item's bytes using the supplied charset. It is intended for text-based related items such as style sheets. The first argument is the zero-based related-item index and the second is the charset. This example reads an embedded CSS style sheet as text.

Background: Not every related item is a binary image — some are text, like a CSS style sheet embedded so the HTML renders consistently offline. For those, GetRelatedString decodes the bytes back to characters using the charset you specify (typically utf-8). For binary related items such as images, read the raw data via the BinData-based accessor instead. This variant normalizes line endings to bare CR; use GetRelatedStringCrLf when you need CRLF.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

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

    //  Demonstrates the GetRelatedString method, which returns the text of a related item (with
    //  CR line-endings), interpreting the bytes using the specified charset.  This is intended
    //  for text-based related items such as style sheets.  The index is zero-based.

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

    //  The HTML 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 style sheet (index 0).
    CkEmail_AddRelatedString2(email,"styles.css","body { color: navy; }","utf-8");

    //  Get the first related item (index 0) as text, interpreting the bytes as utf-8.
    content = CkEmail_getRelatedString(email,0,"utf-8");
    printf("Related item 0 text: %s\n",content);


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }