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Tcl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Unzip Encrypted Text into a String Variable

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Demonstrates how to open an encrypted .zip archive and unzip a text file directly into a string variable.

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Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set zip [new_CkZip]

#  Set the password required for decrypting.
CkZip_put_DecryptPassword $zip "myPassword"

set success [CkZip_OpenZip $zip "encrypted.zip"]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkZip_lastErrorText $zip]
    delete_CkZip $zip
    exit
}

#  Locate the file within the Zip to be unzipped into a string variable:
set entry [new_CkZipEntry]

set success [CkZip_EntryMatching $zip "*.csv" $entry]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkZip_lastErrorText $zip]
    delete_CkZip $zip
    delete_CkZipEntry $entry
    exit
}

#  lineEndingBehavior:
#  0 = leave unchanged.
#  1 = convert all to bare LF's
#  2 = convert all to CRLF's
set lineEndingBehavior 0
set srcCharset "utf-8"

set strCsv [CkZipEntry_unzipToString $entry $lineEndingBehavior $srcCharset]
puts "$strCsv"

delete_CkZip $zip
delete_CkZipEntry $entry