(Visual FoxPro) Unzip an AES Encrypted Text File directly into a String Variable

A common need is to unzip from an AES encrypted Zip archive directly into a string variable, such that the unencrypted file never resides on disk, even temporarily. This example shows how to do it.

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LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEntry
LOCAL lnLineEndingBehavior
LOCAL lcSrcCharset
LOCAL lcXmlText

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

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Zip')
loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')

* This example opens a WinZip-compatible AES encrypted
* .zip that contains a single file: hamlet.xml.

* It decrypts and unzips hamlet.xml directly into a string
* variable.
loZip.SetPassword("secret")
lnSuccess = loZip.OpenZip("qa_data/hamlet.zip")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loEntry = loZip.GetEntryByName("hamlet.xml")
IF (loZip.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? "Failed to find entry in zip"
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* lineEndingBehavior:
* 0 = leave unchanged.
* 1 = convert all to bare LF's
* 2 = convert all to CRLF's
lnLineEndingBehavior = 0
lcSrcCharset = "utf-8"
lcXmlText = loEntry.UnzipToString(lnLineEndingBehavior,lcSrcCharset)
? lcXmlText
RELEASE loEntry

RELEASE loZip