Perl

Access a Part in a Multipart MIME Entity

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.PartAt method, which provides live access to the direct child at a zero-based index. The first argument is the index and the second is a Mime object that will reference the child. Modifying it modifies the child stored in the parent tree.

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Background: This is how you reach into a multipart message to inspect or edit an individual part — read a part's Content-Type, extract an attachment's body, or change a part in place. The key point is that the returned Mime is a live reference, not a copy, so edits to it flow back into the parent tree. Loop from 0 to NumParts - 1 to visit every direct child.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

#  PartAt provides LIVE access to a direct child part.  The 1st argument is the zero-based index
#  and the 2nd is a Mime object that will reference the child.  Modifying it modifies the child in
#  the parent tree.
$n = $mime->get_NumParts();
print "Number of parts: " . $n . "\r\n";

$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;
    }

    print "Part " . $i . " Content-Type: " . $part->contentType() . "\r\n";
}