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Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Pattern

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReplaceString2 method, which returns the replacement string for a previously-defined pattern/replacement pair, looked up by the pattern itself (a mail-merge feature). This example defines two pairs and looks up the replacement for one pattern by name.

Background: Where GetReplaceString fetches a replacement by its numeric position, GetReplaceString2 fetches it by the pattern — convenient when you already know the token (say FIRST_NAME) and just want its configured substitution without scanning the whole list.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

//  Demonstrates the GetReplaceString2 method, which returns the replacement string for a
//  previously-defined pattern/replacement pair, looked up by the pattern itself (a
//  mail-merge feature).

$email = new CkEmail();
$email->put_Subject('Hello FIRST_NAME');
$email->put_Body('Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.');

$email->SetReplacePattern('FIRST_NAME','John');
$email->SetReplacePattern('CITY','Denver');

//  Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
$repl = $email->getReplaceString2('FIRST_NAME');
print 'FIRST_NAME -> ' . $repl . "\n";

?>