Visual FoxPro

Unzip a .zip Archive

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Demonstrates how to open a .zip archive and unzip. The Unzip method extracts the files and directories from a .zip archive and recreates the directory tree rooted at the directory path passed to Unzip. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnUnzipCount

lnSuccess = 0

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

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')

lnSuccess = loZip.OpenZip("my_files.zip")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Returns the number of files and directories unzipped.
* Unzips to /my_files, re-creating the directory tree
* from the .zip.
lnUnzipCount = loZip.Unzip("/my_files")
IF (lnUnzipCount < 0) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
ELSE
    ? "Success!"
ENDIF

RELEASE loZip