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Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Pattern

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReplaceString2 method, which returns the replacement string for a previously-defined pattern/replacement pair, looked up by the pattern itself (a mail-merge feature). This example defines two pairs and looks up the replacement for one pattern by name.

Background: Where GetReplaceString fetches a replacement by its numeric position, GetReplaceString2 fetches it by the pattern — convenient when you already know the token (say FIRST_NAME) and just want its configured substitution without scanning the whole list.

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;  Demonstrates the GetReplaceString2 method, which returns the replacement string for a
;  previously-defined pattern/replacement pair, looked up by the pattern itself (a
;  mail-merge feature).

$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")

;  Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
Local $sRepl = $oEmail.GetReplaceString2("FIRST_NAME")
ConsoleWrite("FIRST_NAME -> " & $sRepl & @CRLF)