Ruby

GZip Decompress File

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Demonstrates how to uncompress a .gz compressed file to get the uncompressed original file. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

gzip = Chilkat::CkGzip.new()

success = gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz","qa_output/something.csv")
if (success != true)
    print gzip.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format." + "\n";