Perl

Add Files to a ZIP Using AddFile

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This example demonstrates how to use the AddFile method to add files from the local filesystem to a ZIP archive.

The example adds two files:

• One file with its relative directory path preserved
• One file stored using only its filename

The AddFile method adds references to local filesystem files. The files are not actually read or compressed until a Write* method is called.

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $zip = Chilkat2::Zip->new;

my $success = $zip->NewZip('addFileExample.zip');
if (!$success) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Add a file and preserve its relative directory structure
# within the ZIP archive.
#
# The following file:
#     c:/projects/app/docs/readme.txt
#
# Will be stored in the ZIP as:
#     projects/app/docs/readme.txt
#
my $saveExtraPath = 1;
$success = $zip->AddFile('c:/projects/app/docs/readme.txt', $saveExtraPath);
if (!$success) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Add a file using only the filename in the ZIP archive.
#
# The following file:
#     c:/temp/logo.png
#
# Will be stored in the ZIP as:
#     logo.png
#
$saveExtraPath = 0;
$success = $zip->AddFile('c:/temp/logo.png', $saveExtraPath);
if (!$success) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Write the ZIP archive to disk and close it.
# The source files are consumed at this time.
$success = $zip->WriteZipAndClose();
if (!$success) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "ZIP archive created successfully.\n";