How to read the content of zipped file without unzipping in C++

[Man4ish]

Hi,

I am working on one application in which i need to read the contents of one file test.tar.gz which has 50000 files. I know the names of files inside but i don't want to unzip it. I want C++ program to read the file test.tar.gz and read the content of one of the file ( let' day sample1.txt ), so that it can be very fast. How can i do it? Please help.

Thanks

[newb16]

zlib library - gz* functions in zlib on the other hand use the gzip format.

[Man4ish]

Thanks, I am going through it. Is there any statistics how much time it will take to search file in directory if i know the name of the file. Please reply.

Regards

[newb16]

In tar archive, file names are stored along with file data - so if the file of interest is the last in the archive, you will have to unzip the whole archive until you reach the last file name.