(PowerBuilder) Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

How to create a .zip archive excluding (skipping) files that match a set of wildcarded patterns.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Zip
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Sa
integer li_Recurse
integer li_Success

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

loo_Zip = create oleobject
// Use "Chilkat_9_5_0.Zip" for versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0
li_rc = loo_Zip.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Zip")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Zip
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

li_Success = loo_Zip.NewZip("test.zip")
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_Zip.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Zip
    return
end if

// Create a string array object with our set of filename patterns
// to be excluded:
loo_Sa = create oleobject
// Use "Chilkat_9_5_0.StringArray" for versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0
li_rc = loo_Sa.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringArray")

li_Success = loo_Sa.Append("*.bak")
li_Success = loo_Sa.Append("*.tmp")

// Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
loo_Zip.SetExclusions(loo_Sa)

// Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
// not read the file contents or append them to the zip
// object in memory.  It simply appends references
// to the files so that when WriteZip (or WriteZipAndClose,
// or WriteExe, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
// and encrypted.
li_Recurse = 1
li_Success = loo_Zip.AppendFiles("/temp/a/*",li_Recurse)

li_Success = loo_Zip.WriteZipAndClose()
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_Zip.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Zip
    destroy loo_Sa
    return
end if

Write-Debug "Zip Created!"


destroy loo_Zip
destroy loo_Sa