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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...