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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.Chilkat Lua Downloads
local chilkat = require("chilkat")
-- 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).
local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "Hello FIRST_NAME"
email.body = "Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY."
email:set_replace_pattern("FIRST_NAME", "John")
email:set_replace_pattern("CITY", "Denver")
-- Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
local repl = email:get_replace_string2("FIRST_NAME")
print("FIRST_NAME -> " .. repl)