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Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Index

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReplaceString method, which returns the replacement string for the Nth previously-defined pattern/replacement pair (a mail-merge feature). The index is zero-based and corresponds to the same index used by GetReplacePattern. This example defines two pairs and prints each pattern with its replacement.

Background: Pairing GetReplacePattern (the token to find) with GetReplaceString (the text to substitute) at the same index lets you walk the full mail-merge table. Retrieving a replacement by its position is handy when enumerating all substitutions; to look one up by its pattern instead, use GetReplaceString2.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

#  Demonstrates the GetReplaceString method, which returns the replacement string for the
#  Nth previously-defined pattern/replacement pair (a mail-merge feature).  The index is
#  zero-based and corresponds to the same index used by GetReplacePattern.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Hello FIRST_NAME"
$email.Body = "Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY."

$email.SetReplacePattern("FIRST_NAME","John")
$email.SetReplacePattern("CITY","Denver")

$n = $email.NumReplacePatterns

for ($i = 0; $i -le $n - 1; $i++) {
    $($email.GetReplacePattern($i) + " -> " + $email.GetReplaceString($i))
}