Unicode C++

Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Pattern

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.

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#include <CkEmailW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    //  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).

    CkEmailW email;
    email.put_Subject(L"Hello FIRST_NAME");
    email.put_Body(L"Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.");

    email.SetReplacePattern(L"FIRST_NAME",L"John");
    email.SetReplacePattern(L"CITY",L"Denver");

    //  Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
    const wchar_t *repl = email.getReplaceString2(L"FIRST_NAME");
    wprintf(L"FIRST_NAME -> %s\n",repl);
    }