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Hi all, Here is my problem, Im having a zip file say ex.zip I want to know what are all the files present in ex.zip without extracting or unziping it ...
  1. 06-08-2007 #1
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    Hi all,
    Here is my problem,
    Im having a zip file say ex.zip
    I want to know what are all the files present in ex.zip without extracting or unziping it ...
    i guess i have to use header information from zip format.
    how to do this???
    and which one will be efficient java or c for this program???
    Thanks
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    You can use unzip e.g.
    Code:
    $unzip -l somefile.zip
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    thx.how to do that in programming.is there any built in C or java functions available for this.
    i don't want to use system() function with unzip.
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  4. 06-17-2007 #4
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    if you have Python,
    Code:
    import zipfile
f = zipfile.ZipFile("test.zip")
for name in f.namelist():
    print name
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