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Check if a MIME Part is Text

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.IsText method, which returns whether the Content-Type begins with text/. It takes no arguments and applies to the current part.

Note: The file path is relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the path to your own file.

Background: IsText is the broad check for any textual part — text/plain, text/html, text/xml, and so on — which is what decides whether it is safe to decode the body to a string. For binary parts, decode to bytes instead. Use the narrower predicates when you need the exact text subtype.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoMime
    Integer n
    Variant vPart
    Handle hoPart
    Integer i
    String sTemp1
    Boolean bTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    //  Demonstrates the Mime.IsText method, which returns whether the Content-Type begins with text/.  It takes no arguments and applies to the current
    //  part.  This example iterates the parts of a multipart message and reports which ones match.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoMime
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoMime))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoMime
    End
    Get ComLoadMimeFile Of hoMime "qa_data/multipart_message.eml" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMime To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get ComNumParts Of hoMime To n
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoPart
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoPart))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoPart
    End

    For i From 0 To (n - 1)
        Get pvComObject of hoPart to vPart
        Get ComPartAt Of hoMime i vPart To iSuccess
        If (iSuccess = False) Begin
            Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMime To sTemp1
            Showln sTemp1
            Procedure_Return
        End

        Get ComIsText Of hoPart To bTemp1
        If (bTemp1) Begin
            Get ComContentType Of hoPart To sTemp1
            Showln "Part " i " (" sTemp1 ") is text."
        End

    Loop



End_Procedure