Ruby

Get a To Recipient's Address Only

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly-name part) of the Nth To recipient. The index is zero-based. This example adds two To recipients and prints each one's address.

Background: When you need the machine-usable part of a recipient — the actual user@domain — GetToAddr returns it without the surrounding display name. This is what you want for validating addresses, removing duplicates, or checking against an allow/deny list, since the display name is free-form text and unreliable for identity.

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require 'chilkat'

#  Demonstrates the GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly
#  name) of the Nth To recipient.  The index is zero-based.

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("GetToAddr example")

email.AddTo("Joe Smith","joe@example.com")
email.AddTo("Jane Doe","jane@example.com")

n = email.get_NumTo()

for i in 0 .. n - 1
    print "To " + i.to_s() + " address: " + email.getToAddr(i) + "\n";
end