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 strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $mime = Chilkat2::Mime->new;
my $success = $mime->LoadMimeFile('qa_data/multipart_message.eml');
if (!$success) {
    print $mime->LastErrorText, "\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.
my $n = $mime->NumParts;
print 'Number of parts: ', $n, "\n";

my $part = Chilkat2::Mime->new;
for my $i (0 .. $n - 1) {
    $success = $mime->PartAt($i, $part);
    if (!$success) {
        print $mime->LastErrorText, "\n";
        exit;
    }

    print 'Part ', $i, ' Content-Type: ', $part->ContentType, "\n";
}