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Get a Related Item as Text with CRLF Line Endings

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetRelatedStringCrLf method, which returns the text of a related item with CRLF (\r\n) line-endings, interpreting the item's bytes using the supplied charset. It is intended for text-based related items such as style sheets. This example reads an embedded CSS style sheet with normalized CRLF line endings.

Background: Embedded text may arrive with any style of line ending — bare LF, bare CR, or CRLF. This method normalizes them all to CRLF, which is what internet protocols and many Windows tools expect, avoiding mixed-newline problems when the text is written out or re-transmitted. It is the CRLF counterpart to GetRelatedString (which uses bare CR).

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the GetRelatedStringCrLf method, which returns the text of a related item
-- with CRLF line-endings, interpreting the bytes using the specified charset.  This is
-- intended for text-based related items such as style sheets.  The index is zero-based.

local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "GetRelatedStringCrLf example"

-- The HTML references a related style sheet by name (Content-Location).
email:set_html_body("<html><head><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"styles.css\"/></head><body>Styled.</body></html>")

-- Add the related style sheet (index 0).
email:add_related_string2("styles.css", "body { color: navy; }\nh1 { color: teal; }", "utf-8")

-- Get the first related item (index 0) as text with CRLF line endings.
local content = email:get_related_string_cr_lf(0, "utf-8")
print("Related item 0 text (CRLF-normalized):")
print(content)