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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.
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.Chilkat Ruby Downloads
require 'chilkat'
# 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 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("Hello FIRST_NAME")
email.put_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")
print "FIRST_NAME -> " + repl + "\n";