Unicode C

Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

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How to create a .zip archive excluding (skipping) files that match a set of wildcarded patterns. Unicode C

#include <C_CkZipW.h>
#include <C_CkStringArrayW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkZipW zip;
    HCkStringArrayW sa;
    BOOL recurse;

    success = FALSE;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    zip = CkZipW_Create();

    success = CkZipW_NewZip(zip,L"test.zip");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkZipW_lastErrorText(zip));
        CkZipW_Dispose(zip);
        return;
    }

    // Create a string array object with our set of filename patterns
    // to be excluded:
    sa = CkStringArrayW_Create();
    success = CkStringArrayW_Append(sa,L"*.bak");
    success = CkStringArrayW_Append(sa,L"*.tmp");

    // Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
    CkZipW_SetExclusions(zip,sa);

    // Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
    // not read the file contents or append them to the zip
    // object in memory.  It simply appends references
    // to the files so that when WriteZip (or WriteZipAndClose,
    // or WriteExe, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
    // and encrypted.
    recurse = TRUE;
    success = CkZipW_AppendFiles(zip,L"/temp/a/*",recurse);

    success = CkZipW_WriteZipAndClose(zip);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkZipW_lastErrorText(zip));
        CkZipW_Dispose(zip);
        CkStringArrayW_Dispose(sa);
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"Zip Created!\n");


    CkZipW_Dispose(zip);
    CkStringArrayW_Dispose(sa);

    }