Visual FoxPro

Clear an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Clear method, which removes the current message content — recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded messages — leaving an empty email object. This example builds a message with a recipient and attachment, clears it, and prints the counts before and after.

Background: Reusing a single Email object across many operations is efficient, but leftover state from a previous message could leak into the next. Clear resets the object completely, giving you a clean slate — the safe way to start a fresh message without allocating a new object.

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LOCAL loEmail

*  Demonstrates the Clear method, which removes the current message content, including
*  recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded
*  messages -- leaving an empty email object.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "A message"
loEmail.Body = "Some body text."
loEmail.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
loEmail.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

? "NumTo before clear = " + STR(loEmail.NumTo)
? "NumAttachments before clear = " + STR(loEmail.NumAttachments)

*  Remove all content, resetting the email object.
loEmail.Clear()

? "NumTo after clear = " + STR(loEmail.NumTo)
? "NumAttachments after clear = " + STR(loEmail.NumAttachments)

RELEASE loEmail