(VBScript) Unpack MHT to Files

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Demonstrates how to unpack a .mhtml to files. Unpacks the HTML and to a directory, and image files to a sub-directory located under the directory where the HTML file is unpacked. The image links in the HTML are updated to point to the image files.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Mht")
set mht = CreateObject("Chilkat.Mht")

' This should be an absolute or relative path to the MHT file.
' It is the MHT to be unpacked.
mhtPath = "qa_data/mht/test.mht"

unpackDir = "C:/AAWorkarea/mht_unpack"
htmlFilename = "test.html"
partsSubDir = "images"

' Unpacking will create the HTML file C:/AAWorkarea/mht_unpack/test.html
' The image files are unpacked to C:/AAWorkarea/mht_unpack/images
' The unpackDir and partsSubDir are automatically created if needed.

success = mht.UnpackMHT(mhtPath,unpackDir,htmlFilename,partsSubDir)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mht.LastErrorText)
    outFile.WriteLine("Failed.")
Else
    outFile.WriteLine("Success.")
End If


outFile.Close