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The Modern C++ Challenge
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The Modern C++ Challenge

by Marius Bancila
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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79. Finding files in a ZIP archive

There are a variety of libraries that provide support for working with ZIP archives. Among the ones available for free, the most used ones include ZipLib, Info-Zip, MiniZip, and LZMA SDK from 7z. And then, there are also commercial implementations. For the problems regarding ZIP archives in this book, I have chosen ZipLib. This is a lightweight, open source cross-platform C++11 library built around standard library streams, with no additional dependencies. The library, along with its documentation, is available at https://bitbucket.org/wbenny/ziplib.

To implement the required functionality, you have to:

  • Open the ZIP archive using ZipFile::Open()
  • Enumerate all the entries in the archive using ZipArchive::GetEntry() ...
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