Visual FoxPro Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Replace/Update a FIle in a .zip

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Demonstrates how to replace/update a file from a .zip. Note: This requires the entire .zip to be rewritten. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lcCharset
LOCAL loZip2
LOCAL loEntry

lnSuccess = 0

*  This requires the Chilkat Zip API to have been previously unlocked.
*  See Unlock Chilkat Zip for sample code.

*  First prepare a .zip and write it..
loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')

loZip.NewZip("qa_output/abc.zip")

*  Add some files..
lcCharset = "utf-8"
loZip.AddString("a.txt","aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",lcCharset)
loZip.AddString("b.txt","bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb",lcCharset)
loZip.AddString("c.txt","cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc",lcCharset)

*  Write to qa_output/abc.zip
*  This .zip contains three files: a.txt, b.txt, and c.txt
lnSuccess = loZip.WriteZipAndClose()

*  -------------------------------------------------------------------
*  Open abc.zip, replace the content of the "b.txt" entry with something else, and re-write.
loZip2 = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')
loZip2.OpenZip("qa_output/abc.zip")

loEntry = CreateObject('Chilkat.ZipEntry')
IF (loZip2.EntryOf("b.txt",loEntry) = 1) THEN
    loEntry.ReplaceString("This is the new content.  bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb","utf-8")
ENDIF

*  Write the modified .zip back to "abc.zip"
lnSuccess = loZip2.WriteZipAndClose()

? "success."

RELEASE loZip
RELEASE loZip2
RELEASE loEntry