Objective-C

Get the Plain-Text Body of an Email

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.

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Objective-C

#import <CkoEmail.h>
#import <NSString.h>

//  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.

CkoEmail *email = [[CkoEmail alloc] init];
email.Subject = @"GetPlainTextBody example";

[email SetTextBody: @"Hello, this is the plain-text body." contentType: @"text/plain"];

//  Retrieve the text/plain body.
NSString *plain = [email GetPlainTextBody];
NSLog(@"%@",plain);