Hi, Surya Kiran Gullapalli skrev:

Hello all, I'm newbie to boost::iostreams library.

I'm trying to unzip a .zip file. for that I'm using iostream's zlib_decompressor class to inflate it. I'm using the sample code provided in the documentation. What I was getting is an exception (zlib error).

My question is can i use boost::iostreams classes for unzipping a .zip file.? If so how? a small sample snippet would be helpful.

A .zip file is actually a collection of zlib compressed files, so you cannot use zlib_decompressor directly on the zip file, but you have to extract the files within the zip file first, then decompress them. But how to do that, I don't know (in boost context). But there are plenty of zip archive libs around, f.i. http://www.artpol-software.com/ZipArchive/Default.aspx . I wouldn't be surprised though if there is a boost way of doing this... /Rob