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Check if a MIME Part is an Image

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.IsImage method, which returns whether the Content-Type begins with image/. It takes no arguments and applies to the current part.

Note: The file path is relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the path to your own file.

Background: This locates image parts — inline graphics in a multipart/related message, or image attachments — so your code can preview thumbnails, extract them, or handle them differently from documents. It matches any image/ subtype, including image/svg+xml.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Mime.IsImage method, which returns whether the Content-Type begins with image/.  It takes no arguments and applies to the current
#  part.  This example iterates the parts of a multipart message and reports which ones match.

$mime = chilkat::CkMime->new();
$success = $mime->LoadMimeFile("qa_data/multipart_message.eml");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mime->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$n = $mime->get_NumParts();
$part = chilkat::CkMime->new();

for ($i = 0; $i <= $n - 1; $i++) {
    $success = $mime->PartAt($i,$part);
    if ($success == 0) {
        print $mime->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
        exit;
    }

    if ($part->IsImage()) {
        print "Part " . $i . " (" . $part->contentType() . ") is an image." . "\r\n";
    }

}