(VBScript) Unzip Text File to String

Demonstrates how to open a .zip and extract the 1st file (assuming it's a text file) to a string variable.

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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 requires 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.Zip")
set zip = CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

success = zip.OpenZip("qa_data/zips/EC16100.zip")
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(zip.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Get the 1st file in the .zip
' entry is a Chilkat.ZipEntry
Set entry = zip.GetEntryByIndex(0)
If (zip.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("No files in this zip.")
    WScript.Quit
End If

fileContents = entry.UnzipToString(0,"utf-8")
outFile.WriteLine(fileContents)


outFile.Close