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Transition from Zip.FirstMatchingEntry to Zip.EntryMatching

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated FirstMatchingEntry method calls with EntryMatching.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

# ...
# ...
$pattern = "*.txt";

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The FirstMatchingEntry method is deprecated:

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

# ...
# ...

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Do the equivalent using EntryMatching.
# Your application creates a new, empty ZipEntry object which is passed 
# in the last argument and filled upon success.

$ze = chilkat::CkZipEntry->new();
$success = $zip->EntryMatching($pattern,$ze);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}