On 10/25/22 3:45 AM, Carl Hoefs via Cocoa-dev wrote:
My iOS app downloads a gzip'd data file into its sandbox that the app needs to 
unzip
and process. I don't see anything in Cocoa (such as NSFileManager) that 
addresses
uncompressing files. Is there a way?

(BTW, I tried some ancient 3rd party code called ZipArchive but it always fails 
trying
to parse the zipped file.)

I'm hoping there's a built-in solution or framework that I'm just overlooking.

I'm using an NSData extension that uses <zlib.h>:

https://github.com/schacon/igithub/blob/master/CocoaGit/Util/NSData%2BCompression.m

Is very easy to use and works very well. You need to add "-lz" to the "Other Linker Flags" linker option in the target build settings of your project.

Regards
Markus
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