Delphi ActiveX
Delphi ActiveX
Get a Header Field by Name
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetHeaderField method, which returns the value of a header field by name. Header-field names are case-insensitive, so X-Priority and x-priority refer to the same field. This example reads several headers by name.
Background: Looking up a header by name is the quickest way to read a known field like
Subject or a custom X- header. One caveat: some header names (such as Received) can legitimately appear more than once. When a field may repeat and you need every occurrence, enumerate by index with GetHeaderFieldName and GetHeaderFieldValue instead of looking up by name.Chilkat Delphi ActiveX Downloads
var
email: TChilkatEmail;
begin
// Demonstrates the GetHeaderField method, which returns the value of a header field by
// name. Header-field names are case-insensitive.
email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
email.Subject := 'Quarterly report';
email.From := 'alice@example.com';
email.AddHeaderField('X-Priority','1');
// Get header field values by name.
Memo1.Lines.Add('Subject = ' + email.GetHeaderField('Subject'));
Memo1.Lines.Add('From = ' + email.GetHeaderField('From'));
Memo1.Lines.Add('X-Priority = ' + email.GetHeaderField('x-priority'));