Visual FoxPro

Add Text from a StringBuilder to a ZIP Using AddSb

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This example demonstrates how to use the AddSb method to add text from a StringBuilder object as a file entry within a ZIP archive.

The text is converted to bytes using the specified character encoding before being stored in the ZIP archive.

This method is useful for dynamically generating text files entirely in memory without creating temporary files on disk.

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loZip
LOCAL loSb

lnSuccess = 0

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')

lnSuccess = loZip.NewZip("stringBuilderData.zip")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Create a StringBuilder containing text data.
loSb = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')

loSb.AppendLine("Line 1: Hello World!",1)
loSb.AppendLine("Line 2: This text came from a StringBuilder.",1)

* Add the StringBuilder contents as a UTF-8 text file
* stored in the ZIP archive as "docs/readme.txt".
lnSuccess = loZip.AddSb("docs/readme.txt",loSb,"utf-8")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    RELEASE loSb
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Write the ZIP archive to disk and close it.
lnSuccess = loZip.WriteZipAndClose()
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    RELEASE loSb
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "ZIP archive created successfully."

RELEASE loZip
RELEASE loSb