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Add a String Attachment to an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email object's AddStringAttachment method, which adds an attachment directly from an in-memory string — no file needs to exist on disk. The 1st argument is the filename that is written into the MIME (it is not a path to a file that is read), and the 2nd argument is the text that becomes the attachment's body. In this example we build a simple email, attach a small CSV file named people.csv straight from a string, and then print the resulting MIME so you can see the attachment embedded in the message.

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require 'chilkat'

#  This example demonstrates the Email object's AddStringAttachment method.
#  AddStringAttachment adds an attachment directly from an in-memory string.
#  The 1st argument is the filename to be placed in the MIME (not a file to be read).
#  The 2nd argument is the text content that becomes the attachment body.

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()

email.put_Subject("Email with a string attachment")
email.put_Body("See the attached CSV file.")
email.put_From("mary@example.com")
email.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")

#  The text content of the attachment.
csvData = "id,name\r\n1,Alice\r\n2,Bob\r\n"

#  Add the string as an attachment named "people.csv".
email.AddStringAttachment("people.csv",csvData)

#  Show the full MIME of the email, which now includes the attachment.
print email.getMime() + "\n";