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Extract ZIP Files Without Preserving Directory Paths Using DiscardPaths

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This example demonstrates how to use the DiscardPaths property to extract files from a ZIP archive without recreating the stored directory structure.

When DiscardPaths is set to _TRUE_, all extracted files are written directly into the target extraction directory, and any stored ZIP path information is ignored.

This is useful when:

• Flattening ZIP contents into a single directory
• Ignoring stored subdirectory structures during extraction
• Extracting only the files themselves without recreating folders

Suppose the ZIP archive contains:

docs/readme.txt
docs/manual.pdf
images/logo.png

Normally, extracting the ZIP would create:

output/docs/readme.txt
output/docs/manual.pdf
output/images/logo.png

But when DiscardPaths is set to _TRUE_, the extracted files become:

output/readme.txt
output/manual.pdf
output/logo.png

The stored ZIP directory paths are discarded during extraction.

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Local $bSuccess = False

$oZip = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Zip")

;  Open an existing ZIP archive.
$bSuccess = $oZip.OpenZip("example.zip")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oZip.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  Discard stored ZIP paths during extraction.
;  
;  When DiscardPaths = True, all files are extracted
;  directly into the target directory without recreating
;  the ZIP directory structure.
$oZip.DiscardPaths = True

;  Extract all files to the output directory.
;  
;  Even if the ZIP contains:
;  
;      docs/readme.txt
;      docs/manual.pdf
;      images/logo.png
;  
;  The extracted files become:
;  
;      c:/output/readme.txt
;      c:/output/manual.pdf
;      c:/output/logo.png
;  
Local $iNumFilesUnzipped = $oZip.Unzip("c:/output")

If ($iNumFilesUnzipped < 0) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oZip.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Number of files extracted = " & $iNumFilesUnzipped & @CRLF)

$oZip.CloseZip 

ConsoleWrite("Files extracted successfully." & @CRLF)