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Modify Name of File Stored within Zip when Creating a .zip

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Demonstrates how to create a zip where the filename within the .zip is different than the filename that was added from the filesystem.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

Dim zip As New Chilkat.Zip

// Intialize the zip object by calling NewZip.
success = zip.NewZip("myZip.zip")

// Add a reference to a file on disk to the zip object.
// (When appending files to a zip, the files are not actually
// read into memory.  References to the file(s) are added.
// When WriteZip is called, the referenced files are streamed in
// and compressed to the .zip.)
Dim saveExtraPath As Boolean
saveExtraPath = False
success = zip.AddFile("/temp/a/hamlet.xml",saveExtraPath)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(zip.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// The zip object references a single file.
// Retrieve the entry object...
Dim entry As New Chilkat.ZipEntry
success = zip.EntryAt(0,entry)

// Set the entry's filename to anything you want:
entry.FileName = "somethingElse.xml"

// Note: Internally, the zip component retains the name of
// the file referenced.  The current setting of the zip entry's
// FileName property is stored in the .zip when writing.

// The zip written here will contain somethingElse.xml
success = zip.WriteZipAndClose()
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(zip.LastErrorText)
Else
    System.DebugLog("Zip created!")
End If