(C) Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

How to create a .zip archive excluding (skipping) files that match a set of wildcarded patterns.

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#include <C_CkZip.h>
#include <C_CkStringArray.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkZip zip;
    BOOL success;
    HCkStringArray sa;
    BOOL recurse;
    BOOL success;

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

    zip = CkZip_Create();

    success = CkZip_NewZip(zip,"test.zip");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkZip_lastErrorText(zip));
        CkZip_Dispose(zip);
        return;
    }

    // Create a string array object with our set of filename patterns
    // to be excluded:
    sa = CkStringArray_Create();
    success = CkStringArray_Append(sa,"*.bak");
    success = CkStringArray_Append(sa,"*.tmp");

    // Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
    CkZip_SetExclusions(zip,sa);

    // Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
    // not read the file contents or append them to the zip
    // object in memory.  It simply appends references
    // to the files so that when WriteZip (or WriteZipAndClose,
    // or WriteExe, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
    // and encrypted.
    recurse = TRUE;
    success = CkZip_AppendFiles(zip,"/temp/a/*",recurse);

    success = CkZip_WriteZipAndClose(zip);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkZip_lastErrorText(zip));
        CkZip_Dispose(zip);
        CkStringArray_Dispose(sa);
        return;
    }

    printf("Zip Created!\n");


    CkZip_Dispose(zip);
    CkStringArray_Dispose(sa);

    }