Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Get the text body content of a MIME part.

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Explains and demonstrates the GetBodyEncoded and GetBodyDecoded methods. This example uses the MIME test data located at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/sampleMime1.txt

The sampleMime1.txt contains:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="------------070404010201060604000708";

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--------------070404010201060604000708
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8";

Falsches =C3=9Cben von Xylophonmusik qu=C3=A4lt jeden gr=C3=B6=C3=9Feren Zwe=
rg.
--------------070404010201060604000708
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8";

RmFsc2NoZXMgw5xiZW4gdm9uIFh5bG9waG9ubXVzaWsgcXXDpGx0IGplZGVuIGdyw7bDn2VyZW4g
Wndlcmcu

--------------070404010201060604000708
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1";

Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg.
--------------070404010201060604000708--

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $mime = Chilkat2::Mime->new;

# Load the sampleMime1.txt file into the MIME object.
# (This file is available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/sampleMime1.txt )

my $success = $mime->LoadMimeFile('sampleMime1.txt');
if (!$success) {
    print $mime->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# The sampleMime1.txt is a MIME document with a top-level
# multipart/mixed containing 3 sub-parts, each of which has the
# same body text but with different content-transfer-encodings and
# using different character encodings (utf-8 and iso-8859-1).

# Calling mime.GetBodyEncoded or mime.GetBodyDecoded on the
# top-level multipart/mixed MIME object will return an empty string.
# It is because the "body" of a multipart MIME object is always empty.
# A multipart MIME object contains sub-parts (each a MIME object),
# and it is only the leaf-objects that can have non-empty bodies.

# Get GetBodyDecoded method returns the body text decoded
# from whatever the content-transfer-encoding may be, and
# converted from whatever charset encoding might be used.
# In this case, calling GetBodyDecoded on each of the three
# sub-parts will return the same string.
# To demonstrate:
my $part1 = Chilkat2::Mime->new;
$success = $mime->PartAt(0, $part1);
if (!$success) {
    print $mime->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print $part1->GetBodyDecoded(), "\n";

my $part2 = Chilkat2::Mime->new;
$success = $mime->PartAt(1, $part2);
if (!$success) {
    print $mime->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print $part2->GetBodyDecoded(), "\n";

my $part3 = Chilkat2::Mime->new;
$success = $mime->PartAt(2, $part3);
if (!$success) {
    print $mime->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print $part3->GetBodyDecoded(), "\n";

# The GetBodyEncoded method will NOT decode from
# whatever content-transfer-encoding is used.  However, it will
# convert from whatever internal character encoding
# may be used to return a string appropriate for the calling
# programming language (for example, in .NET or any language
# using ActiveX, all strings are Unicode..)
print $part1->GetBodyEncoded(), "\n";
print $part2->GetBodyEncoded(), "\n";
print $part3->GetBodyEncoded(), "\n";