Java

Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Index

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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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // 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 email = new Email();
        email.setSubject("Hello FIRST_NAME");
        email.setBody("Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.");

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

        int n = email.getNumReplacePatterns();
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            System.out.println(email.getReplacePattern(i) + " -> " + email.getReplaceString(i));
        }
    }
}