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Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Save a MIME Body to a File

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Demonstrates how to save a MIME body to a file. The MIME data file used in this example is available at MIME Sample File.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$mime = chilkat::CkMime->new();

#  The contents of this MIME file are shown below, 
#  and is also available at https://www.chilkatsoft.com/sampleMime.txt
$success = $mime->LoadMimeFile("qa_data/mime/sampleMime.txt");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mime->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  The MIME used in this example has the following nested structure
#  
#  multipart/alternative
#      text/plain
#      multipart/related
#          text/html
#          image/jpeg
#  

#  This example will save each of the non-multipart parts.
#  It will create three files -- a .txt, .html, and .jpg.

#  Save the body of the text/plain part.

$pTxt = chilkat::CkMime->new();
$success = $mime->PartAt(0,$pTxt);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mime->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$pTxt->SaveBody("qa_output/textPart.txt");

#  Save the HTML part.

$mpRelated = chilkat::CkMime->new();
$success = $mime->PartAt(1,$mpRelated);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mime->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$pHtml = chilkat::CkMime->new();
$success = $mpRelated->PartAt(0,$pHtml);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mpRelated->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$pHtml->SaveBody("qa_output/htmlPart.html");

#  Save the JPG binary data.  (The data is automatically base64 decoded prior to saving.)

$pJpg = chilkat::CkMime->new();
$success = $mpRelated->PartAt(1,$pJpg);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mpRelated->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$pJpg->SaveBody("qa_output/jpgPart.jpg");

#  --------------------------------------------------------------
#  --------------------------------------------------------------
#  The MIME sample file loaded at the beginning of this example
#  contains the following MIME:

#  Subject: Test email.
#  Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
#  	boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
#  MIME-Version: 1.0
#  
#  --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
#  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed
#  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
#  
#  This is a test.
#  
#  --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
#  Content-Type: multipart/related;
#  	boundary="------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB"
#  
#  --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
#  Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
#  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
#  
#  <html><head>
#  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
#    </head>
#    <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
#      <p>This is a test.&nbsp; <img src="cid:part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com" height="20" width="20"></p>
#    </body>
#  </html>
#  
#  --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
#  Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="starfish20.jpg"
#  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
#  Content-ID: <part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com>
#  Content-Disposition: inline; filename="starfish20.jpg"
#  
#  /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gAmRmlsZSB3cml0dGVuIGJ5IEFkb2JlIFBob3Rvc2hvcD8g
#  NC4w/9sAQwAQCwwODAoQDg0OEhEQExgoGhgWFhgxIyUdKDozPTw5Mzg3QEhcTkBEV0U3OFBtUVdf
#  YmdoZz5NcXlwZHhcZWdj/9sAQwEREhIYFRgvGhovY0I4QmNjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj
#  Y2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj/8IAEQgAFAAUAwERAAIRAQMRAf/EABcAAAMBAAAA
#  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDBAX/xAAYAQADAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEAP/aAAwDAQACEAMQAAAB2kZY
#  NNEijWKddfTmLgALWH//xAAbEAACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMRAAQSE//aAAgBAQABBQL0XqN+
#  pM2aqJGMiqFFCyg7z//EABwRAAICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAAIQIQMSUf/aAAgBAwEBPwHqU5aq
#  Axx+y1tMQl4elj//xAAcEQEAAQUBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACEBIhA1H/2gAIAQIBAT8B3Bhqy7Zc
#  enyiwmGgDhiOzj//xAAdEAABAwUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIREBIhIkFR/9oACAEBAAY/ArZyn+Cg
#  xtxWuJaoCnqDuin/xAAcEAABBAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABABEhYRAxQVH/2gAIAQEAAT8hkEwPUUR9
#  DYfE4nxtRpIkBTsayuALIiuY/9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDWPTsf/8QAGhEAAwADAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
#  AAEREDFBIf/aAAgBAwEBPxC0DVPcWm+Ce4OesrkE6bjH/8QAGBEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREA
#  QRD/2gAIAQIBAT8QahMiOc8YgSrnTY3ELclHXn//xAAcEAEBAAIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAhMUFx
#  EFH/2gAIAQEAAT8Qn3igmSZSj+c4N4zapMy9IjFV98wncN2iuLFsCEbDGxQkI6RO/n//2Q==
#  
#  --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB--
#  
#  --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0--
#