Perl

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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('GetPlainTextBody example');

$email->SetTextBody('Hello, this is the plain-text body.', 'text/plain');

# Retrieve the text/plain body.
my $plain = $email->GetPlainTextBody();
print $plain, "\n";