VBScript

Zip -- Exclude Files Based on Wildcard Matching

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Demonstrates how to use the SetExclusions method to exclude matching files from being added to a .zip. VBScript

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

success = 0

set zip = CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

success = zip.NewZip("qa_output/x.zip")

' Let's add files from the directory tree rooted at C:\AAWorkarea\ChilkatSampleProjects

' However.. we want to exclude all files ending in ".cache" or ".pdb" regardless of the sub-directory.
' Also exclude all files under any "obj" directory,
' and we also want to exclude any .exe found under a "win10-x64" directory.

set saExcludes = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringArray")
success = saExcludes.Append("*.cache")
success = saExcludes.Append("*.pdb")
success = saExcludes.Append("*/obj/*")
success = saExcludes.Append("*/win10-x64/*.exe")
zip.SetExclusions saExcludes

' Append promises of paths and files to be zipped.
recurse = 1
success = zip.AppendFiles("c:/AAWorkArea/ChilkatSampleProjects/*",recurse)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(zip.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Create the zip from the file and directory promises added previously.
success = zip.WriteZipAndClose()
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(zip.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Success.")

outFile.Close