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Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

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How to create a .zip archive excluding (skipping) files that match a set of wildcarded patterns. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

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

$oZip = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Zip")

$bSuccess = $oZip.NewZip("test.zip")
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oZip.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Create a string array object with our set of filename patterns
; to be excluded:
$oSa = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringArray")
$bSuccess = $oSa.Append("*.bak")
$bSuccess = $oSa.Append("*.tmp")

; Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
$oZip.SetExclusions $oSa

; Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
; not read the file contents or append them to the zip
; object in memory.  It simply appends references
; to the files so that when WriteZip (or WriteZipAndClose,
; or WriteExe, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
; and encrypted.
Local $bRecurse = True
$bSuccess = $oZip.AppendFiles("/temp/a/*",$bRecurse)

$bSuccess = $oZip.WriteZipAndClose()
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oZip.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Zip Created!" & @CRLF)