⚙️zip

zip datatype

Functions

read

zip_object:read("folder/file.txt")

Parameter	Datatype	Description
path	string	path to file

Returns:

Value	Datatype
contents	string

read_stream

zip_object:read_stream("folder/file.txt")

Parameter	Datatype	Description
path	string	path to file

Returns:

Value	Datatype
file stream	table of char

write

zip_object:write("folder/file.txt", "data")

Parameter	Datatype	Description
path	string	path to file
data	string	content to write to file

write_stream

zip_object:write_stream("folder/file.txt", {"a", "b", "c"})

Parameter	Datatype	Description
path	string	path to file
data	table of char	stream to write

save

zip_object:save()

Saves the file's content

get_files

zip_object:get_files()

Returns:

Value	Datatype
files	table

exists

zip_object:exists("folder/file.txt")

Parameter	Datatype	Description
path	string	path to file

Returns:

Value	Datatype
true if file exists	boolean

extract

zip_object:extract("folder/file.txt", "some_directory")

Parameter	Datatype	Description
path	string	path to file
destination	string	directory to extract file to

extract_all

zip_object:extract_all("some_directory")

Parameter	Datatype	Description
destination	string	directory to extract file to