Unicode C

Get Each Alternative Body of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAlternativeBody method, which returns the Nth alternative body. The NumAlternatives property gives the number of alternatives, and indexes are zero-based. This example builds a message with plain-text and HTML alternatives and prints each one.

Background: A multipart/alternative email carries the same content in several forms — commonly plain text and HTML. Enumerating them by index lets you pull out exactly the representation you need: showing the HTML in a rich viewer, extracting the plain text for search or indexing, or comparing the two. Pair this with GetAlternativeContentType to learn what each indexed body actually is.

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#include <C_CkEmailW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmailW email;
    int n;
    int i;

    //  Demonstrates the GetAlternativeBody method, which returns the Nth alternative body.
    //  The NumAlternatives property gives the number of alternatives; indexes are zero-based.

    email = CkEmailW_Create();

    //  Create an email with plain-text and HTML alternatives.
    CkEmailW_SetTextBody(email,L"This is the plain-text alternative.",L"text/plain");
    CkEmailW_AddHtmlAlternativeBody(email,L"<html><body>This is the HTML alternative.</body></html>");

    n = CkEmailW_getNumAlternatives(email);

    for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
        wprintf(L"---- Alternative %d ----\n",i);
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkEmailW_getAlternativeBody(email,i));
    }



    CkEmailW_Dispose(email);

    }