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Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Index

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReplaceString method, which returns the replacement string for the Nth previously-defined pattern/replacement pair (a mail-merge feature). The index is zero-based and corresponds to the same index used by GetReplacePattern. This example defines two pairs and prints each pattern with its replacement.

Background: Pairing GetReplacePattern (the token to find) with GetReplaceString (the text to substitute) at the same index lets you walk the full mail-merge table. Retrieving a replacement by its position is handy when enumerating all substitutions; to look one up by its pattern instead, use GetReplaceString2.

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;  Demonstrates the GetReplaceString method, which returns the replacement string for the
;  Nth previously-defined pattern/replacement pair (a mail-merge feature).  The index is
;  zero-based and corresponds to the same index used by GetReplacePattern.

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
$oEmail.Subject = "Hello FIRST_NAME"
$oEmail.Body = "Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY."

$oEmail.SetReplacePattern("FIRST_NAME","John")
$oEmail.SetReplacePattern("CITY","Denver")

Local $iN = $oEmail.NumReplacePatterns
Local $i
For $i = 0 To $iN - 1
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.GetReplacePattern($i) & " -> " & $oEmail.GetReplaceString($i) & @CRLF)
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