Visual FoxPro

Decompress Gzip Data from BinData Directly to a File

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This example demonstrates how to use the UncompressBdToFile method to decompress Gzip data stored in a BinData object and write the uncompressed output directly to a file.

The compressed .gz data is first loaded into memory using a BinData object. The UncompressBdToFile method then decompresses the data and writes the result directly to the specified file, without modifying the contents of the BinData object.

This approach is useful when you want to extract compressed data to disk without performing an in-place transformation or managing intermediate buffers.

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loGzip
LOCAL loBd

lnSuccess = 0

* This example demonstrates how to decompress Gzip data stored in a BinData object
* and write the uncompressed output directly to a file.

loGzip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Gzip')
loBd = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')

* Load a .gz file into BinData:
lnSuccess = loBd.LoadFile("example.txt.gz")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loBd.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loGzip
    RELEASE loBd
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Loaded Gzip data into memory."

* Uncompress the Gzip data and write directly to a file:
lnSuccess = loGzip.UncompressBdToFile(loBd,"example.txt")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loGzip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loGzip
    RELEASE loBd
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "File successfully uncompressed to example.txt"

RELEASE loGzip
RELEASE loBd