Listing the contents of a Tar archive with QuickTar

This topic demonstrates how to list the contents of a Tar archive using the static GetTarContents method of the QuickTar class.

Tar is not currently available in Xceed's Compact Framework products.

GetTarContents method

There is only one version of the GetTarContents method. The method returns a list of QuickTarItem objects, which you can process as you wish.

Basic steps

To list the contents of a FTP Tar archive, the following steps must be performed:

Declare an array of QuickTarItem objects that will contain the result of the call to the GetTarContents method.
Iterate through the array of QuickTarItem objects to retrieve information on each QuickTarItem object it contains.

Demonstration

In the following example, we specify the Tar archive and the files to remove, and we indicate that the Remove operation should be performed recursively.

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`Dim items As QuickTarItem() = QuickTar.GetTarContents("d:\test.tar", True, "*")` `For Each item As QuickTarItem In items Console.WriteLine(item.FullName) Next item`

Dim items As QuickTarItem() = QuickTar.GetTarContents("d:\test.tar", True, "*")

For Each item As QuickTarItem In items Console.WriteLine(item.FullName) Next item

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`QuickTarItem[] items = QuickTar.GetTarContents(@"d:\test.tar", true, "*");` `foreach (QuickTarItem item in items) { Console.WriteLine(item.FullName); }`

QuickTarItem[] items = QuickTar.GetTarContents(@"d:\test.tar", true, "*");

foreach (QuickTarItem item in items) { Console.WriteLine(item.FullName); }

Things you should consider

The main questions you should ask yourself when adding items to a Tar archive are:

Do you want to do more complex Tar operations? Use the FileSystem-based classes defined within the Xceed.Tar namespace.