How to read file from ZIP archive

Question

Hi,

I am facing a problem where i need to convery the zipentry into a file.

What happens is that I have a zip file full of csv files. I need to unzip the file and extract out the csv files and read it using a Scanner() which takes in only a file (type) and not a zipentry...

Answer 1

Scanner class also accepts InputStream in one of its constructors. Once you have ZipEntry (you obtain it from ZipFile), you can use it in myZipFile.getInputStream(zipEntry) method to get InputStream that you can pass to Scanner.