Re: [boost] unzip .zip file and browse to compressed files

Subject: Re: [boost] unzip .zip file and browse to compressed files
From: eg (egoots_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-27 16:37:24

On 1/26/2010 11:52 PM, Andrej van der Zee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to uncompress a zip-file (which contains multiple files/dirs) and browse through the contents. Does boost provide support for the first part? I looked at iostreams with a zlib uncompressor, but as far as I can see it assumes a single zipped file.
>

Iostreams currently provides compression/decompression filters currently 
for the gzip and bzip2 file formats, as well as zlib compression, but it 
does not currently provide a zip file format compressor. You could build 
your own zip file format support using the zlib compression protocol.

Ed