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Get the Plain-Text Body of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the text/plain content type. It reads the plain-text representation already present in the email object rather than generating one from HTML. This example sets a plain-text body and reads it back.

Background: The plain-text body is the fallback representation of a message — the version shown when HTML can't or shouldn't be rendered, and the form usually preferred for search, indexing, and accessibility. GetPlainTextBody targets it specifically; if the message contains only HTML, this returns empty (check with HasPlainTextBody), so a robust extractor falls back to GetHtmlBody when needed.

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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    // Demonstrates the GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the
    // text/plain content type.  It reads the plain-text representation already present in the
    // email object.

    const email = try chilkat.Email.init();
    defer email.deinit();
    email.setSubject("GetPlainTextBody example");

    email.setTextBody("Hello, this is the plain-text body.", "text/plain");

    // Retrieve the text/plain body.
    const plain = try email.getPlainTextBody(alloc);
    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{plain});
}