Get a To Recipient's Address Only

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly-name part) of the Nth To recipient. The index is zero-based. This example adds two To recipients and prints each one's address.

Background: When you need the machine-usable part of a recipient — the actual user@domain — GetToAddr returns it without the surrounding display name. This is what you want for validating addresses, removing duplicates, or checking against an allow/deny list, since the display name is free-form text and unreliable for identity.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;
    int n;
    int i;

    //  Demonstrates the GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly
    //  name) of the Nth To recipient.  The index is zero-based.

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

    CkEmail_AddTo(email,"Joe Smith","joe@example.com");
    CkEmail_AddTo(email,"Jane Doe","jane@example.com");

    n = CkEmail_getNumTo(email);

    for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
        printf("To %d address: %s\n",i,CkEmail_getToAddr(email,i));
    }



    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }