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Save a Single Email Attachment to Disk

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given zero-based index to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them. This example adds an attachment and saves it.

Background: Where SaveAllAttachments writes every attachment at once, SaveAttachedFile saves just one by index — useful when you have inspected the attachments (by type, name, or size) and want to extract only a specific file. The attachment keeps its own filename; the same filename-safety considerations apply as when saving all of them.

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oEmail

nSuccess := 0

//  Demonstrates the SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given
//  zero-based index to a directory.  If the directory (or any of its components) does not
//  exist, Chilkat creates it.

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Save one attachment"

oEmail:AddStringAttachment("report.txt", "Attachment content.")

//  Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
nSuccess := oEmail:SaveAttachedFile(0, "qa_output/attachments")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oEmail:LastErrorText
    oEmail:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "Saved attachment 0."

//  Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
//  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

oEmail:destroy()