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Get Each Alternative Body of an Email

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

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email

//  Create an email with plain-text and HTML alternatives.
email.SetTextBody "This is the plain-text alternative.","text/plain"
Dim success As Boolean
success = email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML alternative.</body></html>")

Dim n As Int32
n = email.NumAlternatives
Dim i As Int32
For i = 0 To n - 1
    System.DebugLog("---- Alternative " + Str(i) + " ----")
    System.DebugLog(email.GetAlternativeBody(i))
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