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Modify Name of File Stored within Zip when Creating a .zip

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Demonstrates how to create a zip where the filename within the .zip is different than the filename that was added from the filesystem.

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llSuccess = .F.

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

loZip = createobject("CkZip")

// Intialize the zip object by calling NewZip.
llSuccess = loZip.NewZip("myZip.zip")

// Add a reference to a file on disk to the zip object.
// (When appending files to a zip, the files are not actually
// read into memory.  References to the file(s) are added.
// When WriteZip is called, the referenced files are streamed in
// and compressed to the .zip.)
llSaveExtraPath = .F.
llSuccess = loZip.AddFile("/temp/a/hamlet.xml",llSaveExtraPath)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    release loZip
    return
endif

// The zip object references a single file.
// Retrieve the entry object...
loEntry = createobject("CkZipEntry")
loZip.EntryAt(0,loEntry)

// Set the entry's filename to anything you want:
loEntry.FileName = "somethingElse.xml"

// Note: Internally, the zip component retains the name of
// the file referenced.  The current setting of the zip entry's
// FileName property is stored in the .zip when writing.

// The zip written here will contain somethingElse.xml
llSuccess = loZip.WriteZipAndClose()
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
else
    ? "Zip created!"
endif



release loZip
release loEntry