Load compressed text file into a String using JavaScript [duplicate]

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Unzip files using JavaScript

What should I do If I have a simple compressed text file (in a .zip/.rar/... file) and I want to read it into a String with JavaScript?

In other words if the content of my compressed test.txt file is "Hello world", then what should I do to copy this "Hello word" text into a String?

How to do this? Which compression format should I use (.zip/.rar/other)?

Thank you in advance!

How did that compressed text file makes its way into your JavaScript? — Ja͢ck
– Ja͢ck, Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 10:46
You could load any document from JS via AJAX methods, but I don't know how to decompress it. e.g. jQuery.ajax( { url: 'THE_FILE_NAME', complete: function( jqXHR, status ) { /* … */ } } ); — feeela
– feeela, Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 10:48

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:27:36Z

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Assuming you succeeded in loading the compressed file to a javascript variable (through AJAX?), follow this similar question in order to unzip it:

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Thanks for this link! It was realy helpgul to understand the solution.

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