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Clear an Email Object

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Clear method, which removes the current message content — recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded messages — leaving an empty email object. This example builds a message with a recipient and attachment, clears it, and prints the counts before and after.

Background: Reusing a single Email object across many operations is efficient, but leftover state from a previous message could leak into the next. Clear resets the object completely, giving you a clean slate — the safe way to start a fresh message without allocating a new object.

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//  Demonstrates the Clear method, which removes the current message content, including
//  recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded
//  messages -- leaving an empty email object.

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "A message"
email.Body = "Some body text."
Dim success As Boolean
success = email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
success = email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

System.DebugLog("NumTo before clear = " + Str(email.NumTo))
System.DebugLog("NumAttachments before clear = " + Str(email.NumAttachments))

//  Remove all content, resetting the email object.
email.Clear 

System.DebugLog("NumTo after clear = " + Str(email.NumTo))
System.DebugLog("NumAttachments after clear = " + Str(email.NumAttachments))