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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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#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    //  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.

    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 << email.getReplacePattern(i) << " -> " << email.getReplaceString(i) << "\r\n";
    }
    }