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

#  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-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")

#  Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
$repl = $email.GetReplaceString2("FIRST_NAME")
$("FIRST_NAME -> " + $repl)