Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Pattern

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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.

integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Email
string ls_Repl

//  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).

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 = "Hello FIRST_NAME"
loo_Email.Body = "Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY."

loo_Email.SetReplacePattern("FIRST_NAME","John")
loo_Email.SetReplacePattern("CITY","Denver")

//  Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
ls_Repl = loo_Email.GetReplaceString2("FIRST_NAME")
Write-Debug "FIRST_NAME -> " + ls_Repl


destroy loo_Email