C++

Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

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

#include <CkZip.h>
#include <CkStringArray.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    CkZip zip;

    success = zip.NewZip("test.zip");
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << zip.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

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

    // Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
    zip.SetExclusions(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.
    bool recurse = true;
    success = zip.AppendFiles("/temp/a/*",recurse);

    success = zip.WriteZipAndClose();
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << zip.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "Zip Created!" << "\r\n";
    }