How to use email txt file and keep formatting?
I am using a preformatted text file as a template for emails. There are line breaks in the file where I want them. I would like to use this template to send a simple text message, but when I do, I lose all formatting. Line breaks are separated.
How do I parse this file and keep the line breaks? I don't want to use a tag <pre>
because I want to send text emails.
I am using the classic ASP ReadAll method to pull the template into a string:
Dim TextStream
Set TextStream = FSO.OpenTextFile(Filepath, ForReading, False, TristateUseDefault)
' Read file in one hit
Dim Contents
GetTemplate = TextStream.ReadAll ' return file contents
What am I missing?
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here's what i did ...
I take a text or HTML file (I will show the text since its smaller, but the same code applies) and I put the well-known values into a text file that I can replace later.
- Start text file
We've generated a new password for you at your request, you can use this new password with your username to log in to various sections of our site.
Username: ##UserName##
Temporary Password: ##Password##
To use this temporary password, please copy and paste it into the password box.
Please keep this email for your records.
- End of text file
Then it's a simple question to create a list of key / value pairs with the text to replace and the value you replaced. Load the file into memory as a string and loop through your key / value pair, replacing your text values.
ListDictionary dictionary = new ListDictionary
{
{"##UserName##", user.BaseUser.UserName},
{"##Password##", newPassword}
};
string fromResources = GetFromResources("forgotpasswordEmail.html");
string textfromResources = GetFromResources("forgotpasswordEmail.txt");
foreach (DictionaryEntry entry in dictionary)
{
fromResources = fromResources.Replace(entry.Key.ToString(), entry.Value.ToString());
textfromResources = textfromResources.Replace(entry.Key.ToString(), entry.Value.ToString());
}
Then you can email the text (in this case, the variable textfromResources) and it will contain all the line breaks and formatting you need.
As I said, you can do this in the same way as HTML files, or any type of file you want.
Although my example is in C # (I don't have classic ASP code, sorry), the concept of find and replace values will apply to classic ASP.
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I would recommend using http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/06/28/template-component-for-classic-asp/
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