C# ZipFileExtensions ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String, Boolean)

Description

ZipFileExtensions ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String, Boolean) Extracts an entry in the zip archive to a file, and optionally overwrites an existing file that has the same name.

Syntax

ZipFileExtensions.ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String, Boolean) has the following syntax.

public static void ExtractToFile(
  this ZipArchiveEntry source,
  string destinationFileName,//from   www . ja  va 2 s .  c o  m
  bool overwrite
)

Parameters

ZipFileExtensions.ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String, Boolean) has the following parameters.

• source - The zip archive entry to extract a file from.
• destinationFileName - The path of the file to create from the contents of the entry. You can specify either a relative or an absolute path. A relative path is interpreted as relative to the current working directory.
• overwrite - true to overwrite an existing file that has the same name as the destination file; otherwise, false.

Returns

ZipFileExtensions.ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String, Boolean) method returns

Example

using System;//from  ww w.  ja  va  2 s.co m
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string zipPath = @"c:\example\start.zip";
        string extractPath = @"c:\example\extract";

        using (ZipArchive archive = ZipFile.OpenRead(zipPath))
        {
            foreach (ZipArchiveEntry entry in archive.Entries)
            {
                if (entry.FullName.EndsWith(".txt", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                {
                    entry.ExtractToFile(Path.Combine(extractPath, entry.FullName), true);
                }
            }
        } 
    }
}