Tcl
Tcl
Get an Attachment as a Text String
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachmentString method, which returns the Nth attachment's data as text. The first argument is the zero-based attachment index and the second is the charset used to interpret the attachment bytes. This example reads a text attachment as utf-8.
Background: Attachments are stored as bytes, so turning one back into a string requires knowing its charset — the rule for mapping bytes to characters. Supplying the correct charset (often
utf-8) yields readable text; the wrong one produces garbled characters. This method is meant for text attachments such as .txt, .csv, or .xml; binary attachments should be handled as raw data instead.Chilkat Tcl Downloads
load ./chilkat.dll
# Demonstrates the GetAttachmentString method, which returns the Nth attachment's data as
# text. The first argument is the zero-based attachment index and the second is the charset used to interpret
# the attachment bytes.
set email [new_CkEmail]
CkEmail_put_Subject $email "Attachment as text"
CkEmail_AddStringAttachment $email "notes.txt" "These are the notes stored in the attachment."
# Get the first attachment (index 0) as text, interpreting the bytes as utf-8.
set content [CkEmail_getAttachmentString $email 0 "utf-8"]
puts "Attachment 0 text: $content"
delete_CkEmail $email