Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Index

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReplaceString method, which returns the replacement string for the Nth previously-defined pattern/replacement pair (a mail-merge feature). The index is zero-based and corresponds to the same index used by GetReplacePattern. This example defines two pairs and prints each pattern with its replacement.

Background: Pairing GetReplacePattern (the token to find) with GetReplaceString (the text to substitute) at the same index lets you walk the full mail-merge table. Retrieving a replacement by its position is handy when enumerating all substitutions; to look one up by its pattern instead, use GetReplaceString2.

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    //  Demonstrates the GetReplaceString method, which returns the replacement string for the
    //  Nth previously-defined pattern/replacement pair (a mail-merge feature).  The index is
    //  zero-based and corresponds to the same index used by GetReplacePattern.

    email := chilkat.NewEmail()
    email.SetSubject("Hello FIRST_NAME")
    email.SetBody("Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.")

    email.SetReplacePattern("FIRST_NAME","John")
    email.SetReplacePattern("CITY","Denver")

    n := email.NumReplacePatterns()
    var i int
    for i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++ {
        fmt.Println(*email.GetReplacePattern(i), " -> ", *email.GetReplaceString(i))
    }


    email.DisposeEmail()