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Get an Attachment as a Text String

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.

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LOCAL oEmail
LOCAL cContent

//  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.

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Attachment as text"

oEmail:AddStringAttachment("notes.txt", "These are the notes stored in the attachment.")

//  Get the first attachment (index 0) as text, interpreting the bytes as utf-8.
cContent := oEmail:GetAttachmentString(0, "utf-8")
? "Attachment 0 text: " + cContent

oEmail:destroy()