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Get a Mail-Merge Replace Pattern

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReplacePattern method, which returns a replacement pattern — the search string — previously defined for mail-merge operations with SetReplacePattern. The index is zero-based. This example defines two patterns and enumerates them.

Background: In Chilkat's mail-merge, each entry is a pattern (a placeholder token such as FIRST_NAME) paired with a replacement string. GetReplacePattern retrieves the search side of the pair at a given index; GetReplaceString retrieves the matching replacement. Reading them back is useful for inspecting or logging exactly which substitutions will be applied when the message is sent.

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#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    //  Demonstrates the GetReplacePattern method, which returns a replacement pattern (the
    //  search string) previously defined for mail-merge operations with SetReplacePattern.
    //  The index is zero-based.

    CkEmail email;
    email.put_Subject("Hello FIRST_NAME");
    email.put_Body("Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.");

    email.SetReplacePattern("FIRST_NAME","John");
    email.SetReplacePattern("CITY","Denver");

    int n = email.get_NumReplacePatterns();
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
        std::cout << "Pattern " << i << ": " << email.getReplacePattern(i) << "\r\n";
    }
    }