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Visual Basic 6.0

Unzip a .zip Archive

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Demonstrates how to open a .zip archive and unzip. The Unzip method extracts the files and directories from a .zip archive and recreates the directory tree rooted at the directory path passed to Unzip.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim zip As New ChilkatZip

success = zip.OpenZip("my_files.zip")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print zip.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim unzipCount As Long

' Returns the number of files and directories unzipped.
' Unzips to /my_files, re-creating the directory tree
' from the .zip.
unzipCount = zip.Unzip("/my_files")
If (unzipCount < 0) Then
    Debug.Print zip.LastErrorText
Else
    Debug.Print "Success!"
End If