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Clear an Email Object

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Clear method, which removes the current message content — recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded messages — leaving an empty email object. This example builds a message with a recipient and attachment, clears it, and prints the counts before and after.

Background: Reusing a single Email object across many operations is efficient, but leftover state from a previous message could leak into the next. Clear resets the object completely, giving you a clean slate — the safe way to start a fresh message without allocating a new object.

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function chilkatExample() {

    //  Demonstrates the Clear method, which removes the current message content, including
    //  recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded
    //  messages -- leaving an empty email object.

    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    email.Subject = "A message";
    email.Body = "Some body text.";
    email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com");
    email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.");

    console.log("NumTo before clear = " + email.NumTo);
    console.log("NumAttachments before clear = " + email.NumAttachments);

    //  Remove all content, resetting the email object.
    email.Clear();

    console.log("NumTo after clear = " + email.NumTo);
    console.log("NumAttachments after clear = " + email.NumAttachments);

}

chilkatExample();