Tcl

GZip Decompress File

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

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set gzip [new_CkGzip]

set success [CkGzip_UncompressFile $gzip "qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz" "qa_output/something.csv"]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts [CkGzip_lastErrorText $gzip]
    delete_CkGzip $gzip
    exit
}

puts "File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format."

delete_CkGzip $gzip