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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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Objective-C
#import <CkoZip.h>
#import <CkoZipEntry.h>

BOOL success = NO;

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

CkoZip *zip = [[CkoZip alloc] init];

//  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.)
BOOL saveExtraPath = NO;
success = [zip AddFile: @"/temp/a/hamlet.xml" saveExtraPath: saveExtraPath];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",zip.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  The zip object references a single file.
//  Retrieve the entry object...
CkoZipEntry *entry = [[CkoZipEntry alloc] init];
[zip EntryAt: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 0] entry: 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 != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",zip.LastErrorText);
}
else {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Zip created!");
}