Visual FoxPro

GZip Decompress File

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Demonstrates how to uncompress a .gz compressed file to get the uncompressed original file. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loGzip

lnSuccess = 0

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

loGzip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Gzip')

lnSuccess = loGzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz","qa_output/something.csv")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loGzip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loGzip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format."

RELEASE loGzip