(Delphi DLL) Iterate Through Matching ZIP Entries Using EntryMatching and ZipEntry.GetNextMatch

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This example demonstrates how to iterate through ZIP entries matching a wildcard pattern using:

• Zip.EntryMatching to obtain the first matching entry
• ZipEntry.GetNextMatch to advance to subsequent matching entries

The wildcard character * matches zero or more characters. Matching is performed against the full stored ZIP entry path.

The example searches for all entries beneath the docs/ directory.

Suppose the ZIP archive contains:

docs/
docs/readme.txt
docs/manual.pdf
docs/sub1/notes.txt
images/logo.png
hello.txt

The wildcard pattern:

docs/*

Matches:

docs/
docs/readme.txt
docs/manual.pdf
docs/sub1/notes.txt

Note that ZIP archives may optionally contain separate directory entries. Therefore, the first matching entry may be the directory entry docs/ rather than a file entry.

Chilkat for Delphi Downloads Chilkat non-ActiveX DLL for Delphi Chilkat ActiveX DLL for Delphi * The examples here use the non-ActiveX DLL.

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, ZipEntry, Zip;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
zip: HCkZip;
entry: HCkZipEntry;

begin
success := False;

zip := CkZip_Create();

// Open an existing ZIP archive.
success := CkZip_OpenZip(zip,'c:/temp/sample.zip');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkZip__lastErrorText(zip));
    Exit;
  end;

// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Find the first ZIP entry matching the wildcard pattern:
// 
//     docs/*
// 
// Matching is performed against the full stored ZIP path.
// 
entry := CkZipEntry_Create();

success := CkZip_EntryMatching(zip,'docs/*',entry);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('No matching entries found.');
    CkZip_CloseZip(zip);
    Exit;
  end;

// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Iterate through all matching entries.
// 
// GetNextMatch updates the same ZipEntry object so that
// it represents the next matching entry.
// 
while (success = True) do
  begin
    if (CkZipEntry_getIsDirectory(entry) = True) then
      begin
        Memo1.Lines.Add('[Directory] ' + CkZipEntry__fileName(entry));
      end
    else
      begin
        Memo1.Lines.Add('[File] ' + CkZipEntry__fileName(entry));
      end;

    // Advance to the next matching entry.
    success := CkZipEntry_GetNextMatch(entry,'docs/*');
  end;

CkZip_CloseZip(zip);

Memo1.Lines.Add('Done.');

CkZip_Dispose(zip);
CkZipEntry_Dispose(entry);

end;