Best way to open zip file, parse contents

ggantzer2 wrote: Hello, We are working with an affiliate feed that comes in the form of a tab delimited text file that is uploaded to our server as a zip file. While we are well versed on opening and parsing files, i am unsure what the proper technique is for parsing a file that is zipped.

You may use the cfzip tag to parse a text file within a zip file.  For example, I have the zip file C:\Users\BKBK\Desktop\docs.zip (on Windows system). In the zip file, there is a directory, textDocs, which contains the text file, myList.txt. I can output the contents of the text file as follows:

<cfzip file="C:\Users\BKBK\Desktop\docs.zip" action="read" variable="fileContent" entrypath="textDocs/myList.txt" />

<cfoutput>#fileContent#</cfoutput>

I've never used it before, but there is a cfzip tag.  It has read, readbinary, and unzip attributes.  Might be what you need.