How to read text file in zipped folder without extracting

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Hello,
I have one zipped folder in that there is one text file .
can any one tell me How to read text from text file without extracting zipped folder.

Posted 6-Mar-14 18:27pm

Devraj Kapdi

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sir, you can only do so if you have knowledge that how the file is being compressed or what method is being used to compress it as when a folder is compressed every file in it is compressed separately.

You could use a library such as SharpZipLib or DotNetZip to unzip the file and fetch the contents of individual files contained inside. This operation could be performed in-memory and you don't need to store the files into a temporary folder.

SharpZipLib:http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx[^]

DotNetZip:http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/[^]

Posted 6-Mar-14 19:19pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-06T19:15:00

Supposed you have your problem solved and successfully read the content of one of the zipped files. Essentially, you extracted the file from zip. It looks like you asking: "how to extract a file without extracting". I understand, it sound casuistic, but this is because your formulation of the problem has no certain well-defined meaning. As you are a software developer, you need to be able to provide more strict formulations of your statement or questions.

Most likely, you meant something different: how to extract some zipped file directly into memory, avoiding creation and any temporary files. Is that correct? I would be much surprised if my assumption was wrong.

One of the ways to achieve it is using open-source DotNetZip. This is explained here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12715945/unzip-a-memorystream-contains-the-zip-file-and-get-the-files[^].

—SA