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Get a To Recipient's Address Only

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly-name part) of the Nth To recipient. The index is zero-based. This example adds two To recipients and prints each one's address.

Background: When you need the machine-usable part of a recipient — the actual user@domain — GetToAddr returns it without the surrounding display name. This is what you want for validating addresses, removing duplicates, or checking against an allow/deny list, since the display name is free-form text and unreliable for identity.

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<?php

//  Demonstrates the GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly
//  name) of the Nth To recipient.  The index is zero-based.

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'GetToAddr example';

$email->AddTo('Joe Smith','joe@example.com');
$email->AddTo('Jane Doe','jane@example.com');

$n = $email->NumTo;

for ($i = 0; $i <= $n - 1; $i++) {
    print 'To ' . $i . ' address: ' . $email->getToAddr($i) . "\n";
}


?>