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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.

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Java
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    //  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).

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    email.put_Subject("Hello FIRST_NAME");
    email.put_Body("Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.");

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

    //  Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
    String repl = email.getReplaceString2("FIRST_NAME");
    System.out.println("FIRST_NAME -> " + repl);
  }
}