Hello Statalisters,
I have just discovered two built-in undocumented commands in Stata 10
(at least in the Windows version) which might be of interest to the
public.
Syntax:
unzipfile ArchiveName.zip [Filename.ext ,overwrite password("mypassword")]
zipfile ArchiveName.zip Filename.ext [, overwrite
password("mypassword") level(#)]
where level's argument is a number between 1 and 9 (compression level)
if filename to extract is not specified, all files are extracted
-zipfile- can compress all files in a particular folder, just specify
the folder name instead of a filename. (this feature seems to be
non-recursive, so subfolders will not be archived). Other options are
self-explanatory.
The code seems to be based on the ZLib v1.01 library by Gilles
Vollant: www.winimage.com/zLibDll/
I wonder if anyone could confirm presence of these commands on other Platforms?
I wonder if anyone from Stata, Corp could confirm that target
directory to unzip is always the current directory. Is there any
option to get a list of files in a particular archive into a macro?
Best Regards,
Sergiy Radyakin
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