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Get a Related Item as Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetRelatedString method, which returns the text of a related item (with CR line-endings), interpreting the item's bytes using the supplied charset. It is intended for text-based related items such as style sheets. The first argument is the zero-based related-item index and the second is the charset. This example reads an embedded CSS style sheet as text.

Background: Not every related item is a binary image — some are text, like a CSS style sheet embedded so the HTML renders consistently offline. For those, GetRelatedString decodes the bytes back to characters using the charset you specify (typically utf-8). For binary related items such as images, read the raw data via the BinData-based accessor instead. This variant normalizes line endings to bare CR; use GetRelatedStringCrLf when you need CRLF.

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integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Email
string ls_Content

//  Demonstrates the GetRelatedString method, which returns the text of a related item (with
//  CR line-endings), interpreting the bytes using the specified charset.  This is intended
//  for text-based related items such as style sheets.  The index is zero-based.

loo_Email = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Email.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Email
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
loo_Email.Subject = "GetRelatedString example"

//  The HTML references a related style sheet by name (Content-Location).
loo_Email.SetHtmlBody("<html><head><link rel=~"stylesheet~" href=~"styles.css~"/></head><body>Styled.</body></html>")

//  Add the related style sheet (index 0).
loo_Email.AddRelatedString2("styles.css","body { color: navy; }","utf-8")

//  Get the first related item (index 0) as text, interpreting the bytes as utf-8.
ls_Content = loo_Email.GetRelatedString(0,"utf-8")
Write-Debug "Related item 0 text: " + ls_Content


destroy loo_Email