Delphi ActiveX
Delphi ActiveX
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.Chilkat Delphi ActiveX Downloads
var
email: TChilkatEmail;
repl: WideString;
begin
// 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).
email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
email.Subject := 'Hello FIRST_NAME';
email.Body := 'Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.';
email.SetReplacePattern('FIRST_NAME','John');
email.SetReplacePattern('CITY','Denver');
// Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
repl := email.GetReplaceString2('FIRST_NAME');
Memo1.Lines.Add('FIRST_NAME -> ' + repl);