Perl

Get an Alternative Body by Content-Type

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAlternativeBodyByContentType method, which returns an alternative body selected by its Content-Type — such as text/plain, text/html, or text/xml — instead of by numeric index. This example retrieves both the plain-text and HTML alternatives by content type.

Background: Selecting by Content-Type is often more convenient than by index, because you usually know which representation you want (the HTML, say) but not its position in the alternative list. This mirrors how a mail client works — it looks up the best matching type to display — and avoids assumptions about ordering, which can vary between messages.

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use chilkat();

#  Demonstrates the GetAlternativeBodyByContentType method, which returns an alternative
#  body selected by its Content-Type (such as text/plain, text/html, or text/xml) rather
#  than by index.

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();

#  Create an email with plain-text and HTML alternatives.
$email->SetTextBody("This is the plain-text alternative.","text/plain");
$email->AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML alternative.</body></html>");

#  Get the plain-text alternative by its content type.
$plain = $email->getAlternativeBodyByContentType("text/plain");
print "text/plain body: " . $plain . "\r\n";

#  Get the HTML alternative by its content type.
$htmlBody = $email->getAlternativeBodyByContentType("text/html");
print "text/html body: " . $htmlBody . "\r\n";