Ruby

Clear an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Clear method, which removes the current message content — recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded messages — leaving an empty email object. This example builds a message with a recipient and attachment, clears it, and prints the counts before and after.

Background: Reusing a single Email object across many operations is efficient, but leftover state from a previous message could leak into the next. Clear resets the object completely, giving you a clean slate — the safe way to start a fresh message without allocating a new object.

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require 'chilkat'

#  Demonstrates the Clear method, which removes the current message content, including
#  recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded
#  messages -- leaving an empty email object.

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("A message")
email.put_Body("Some body text.")
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

print "NumTo before clear = " + email.get_NumTo().to_s() + "\n";
print "NumAttachments before clear = " + email.get_NumAttachments().to_s() + "\n";

#  Remove all content, resetting the email object.
email.Clear()

print "NumTo after clear = " + email.get_NumTo().to_s() + "\n";
print "NumAttachments after clear = " + email.get_NumAttachments().to_s() + "\n";