Node.js

Unzip Encrypted Text into a String Variable

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Demonstrates how to open an encrypted .zip archive and unzip a text file directly into a string variable. Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

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

    var zip = new chilkat.Zip();

    // Set the password required for decrypting.
    zip.DecryptPassword = "myPassword";

    success = zip.OpenZip("encrypted.zip");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(zip.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Locate the file within the Zip to be unzipped into a string variable:
    var entry = new chilkat.ZipEntry();
    success = zip.EntryMatching("*.csv",entry);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(zip.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // lineEndingBehavior:
    // 0 = leave unchanged.
    // 1 = convert all to bare LF's
    // 2 = convert all to CRLF's
    var lineEndingBehavior = 0;
    var srcCharset = "utf-8";

    var strCsv = entry.UnzipToString(lineEndingBehavior,srcCharset);
    console.log(strCsv);

}

chilkatExample();