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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.

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bool success = false;

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

Chilkat.Zip zip = new Chilkat.Zip();

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

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

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

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

string strCsv = entry.UnzipToString(lineEndingBehavior,srcCharset);
Debug.WriteLine(strCsv);