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Get the Plain-Text Body of an Email
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the text/plain content type. It reads the plain-text representation already present in the email object rather than generating one from HTML. This example sets a plain-text body and reads it back.
Background: The plain-text body is the fallback representation of a message — the version shown when HTML can't or shouldn't be rendered, and the form usually preferred for search, indexing, and accessibility.
GetPlainTextBody targets it specifically; if the message contains only HTML, this returns empty (check with HasPlainTextBody), so a robust extractor falls back to GetHtmlBody when needed.Chilkat Lua Downloads
local chilkat = require("chilkat")
-- Demonstrates the GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the
-- text/plain content type. It reads the plain-text representation already present in the
-- email object.
local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "GetPlainTextBody example"
email:set_text_body("Hello, this is the plain-text body.", "text/plain")
-- Retrieve the text/plain body.
local plain = email:get_plain_text_body()
print(plain)