Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$zip = chilkat::CkZip->new();

#  Intialize the zip object by calling NewZip.
$success = $zip->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.)
$saveExtraPath = 0;
$success = $zip->AddFile("/temp/a/hamlet.xml",$saveExtraPath);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  The zip object references a single file.
#  Retrieve the entry object...
$entry = chilkat::CkZipEntry->new();
$zip->EntryAt(0,$entry);

#  Set the entry's filename to anything you want:
$entry->put_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
$success = $zip->WriteZipAndClose();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "Zip created!" . "\r\n";
}