Visual FoxPro

Get the Decoded MIME Body Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetBodyDecoded method, which returns the decoded body as text. It takes no arguments. Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.

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

Background: This gives you the actual, human-readable content of a text part — the two-step decode (transfer encoding, then charset) is exactly what a mail client does to display it. Use it for text parts; for binary content such as an image, decode to bytes with GetBodyBd instead, since forcing binary through a text decode would corrupt it.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMime
LOCAL lcBodyText

lnSuccess = 0

loMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.Mime')
lnSuccess = loMime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/message.eml")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Return the body as decoded text.  Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding (Base64
*  or quoted-printable) and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.
lcBodyText = loMime.GetBodyDecoded()
IF (loMime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcBodyText

RELEASE loMime