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Zip -- Exclude Files Based on Wildcard Matching

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Demonstrates how to use the SetExclusions method to exclude matching files from being added to a .zip. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

$oZip = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Zip")

$bSuccess = $oZip.NewZip("qa_output/x.zip")

; Let's add files from the directory tree rooted at C:\AAWorkarea\ChilkatSampleProjects

; However.. we want to exclude all files ending in ".cache" or ".pdb" regardless of the sub-directory.
; Also exclude all files under any "obj" directory,
; and we also want to exclude any .exe found under a "win10-x64" directory.

$oSaExcludes = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringArray")
$oSaExcludes.Append("*.cache")
$oSaExcludes.Append("*.pdb")
$oSaExcludes.Append("*/obj/*")
$oSaExcludes.Append("*/win10-x64/*.exe")
$oZip.SetExclusions $oSaExcludes

; Append promises of paths and files to be zipped.
Local $bRecurse = True
$bSuccess = $oZip.AppendFiles("c:/AAWorkArea/ChilkatSampleProjects/*",$bRecurse)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oZip.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Create the zip from the file and directory promises added previously.
$bSuccess = $oZip.WriteZipAndClose()
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oZip.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Success." & @CRLF)