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ZipFile.UsePassword

Sets the password to use for compressing.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
Compression 5.1 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "ZipFile.UsePassword"; Password { ; Encoding } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
Password The password text. "pass123"
Encoding The text encoding for Password parameter.
Default is native.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.
"native" Optional

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Sets the password to use for compressing.
The password is needed to create encrypted files in archive.
Each item in archive could have its own password, but normally all have the same.

Examples

Set password:

MBS( "ZipFile.UsePassword"; "Hello" )

See also

Example Databases

Blog Entries

Created 26th February 2015, last changed 24th February 2016


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