Objective-C

Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Pattern

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.

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

//  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).

CkoEmail *email = [[CkoEmail alloc] init];
email.Subject = @"Hello FIRST_NAME";
email.Body = @"Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.";

[email SetReplacePattern: @"FIRST_NAME" replace: @"John"];
[email SetReplacePattern: @"CITY" replace: @"Denver"];

//  Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
NSString *repl = [email GetReplaceString2: @"FIRST_NAME"];
NSLog(@"%@%@",@"FIRST_NAME -> ",repl);