(Perl) Transition from Zip.AppendNew to Zip.AddEmpty

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendNew method calls with AddEmpty.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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use chilkat();

$zip = chilkat::CkZip->new();

# ...
# ...
$pathInZip = "example.dat";

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The AppendNew method is deprecated:

# entryObj is a ZipEntry
$entryObj = $zip->AppendNew($pathInZip);
if ($zip->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# ...
# ...

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Do the equivalent using AddEmpty.

# Indicate the newly appended entry is not a directory entry.
$isDir = 0;

$success = $zip->AddEmpty($isDir,$pathInZip);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Do the following if you need the zip entry object for what was just appended.
# The newly appended entry is the last one.
$ze = chilkat::CkZipEntry->new();
$index = $zip->get_NumEntries() - 1;
$zip->EntryAt($index,$ze);