Hi Monks!
I am using this module Archive-Zip and it is working fine, but when a file gets zipped it is also making a duplication of it. I found some help on their website, but I can't understand what they mean here:
From the help page:
"Duplicate files in Zip? ^ Q: Archive::Zip let me put the same file in my Zip twice! Why don't you prevent this? A: As far as I can tell, this is not disallowed by the Zip spec. If you think it's a bad idea, check for it yourself:"
$zip->addFile($someFile, $someName) unless $zip->memberNamed($someName
+);

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"I can even imagine cases where this might be useful (for instance, multiple versions of files)."

Whatever they are asking to be done to correct the issue doesn't work. I wonder if anyone here had the some problem with that.
Here is some of my code:
$zfile = $pathtofile;
$zip = Archive::Zip->new();
my $zipped;
#Chopped log files and Zipped files will be created in the directories
+ below:
my $zip_file = $path_only."/".$file_name.".zip"; 
$zipped = $zip->addFile($zfile);
$zipped->desiredCompressionMethod( COMPRESSION_DEFLATED );
find(\&zip_file, $dir);
die 'write error' unless $zip->writeToFileNamed( $zip_file ) == AZ_OK;
sub zip_file {
    
my $zipped = $zip->addFile( $File::Find::name );
if ($File::Find::name =~ m/\.txt$/i){
   my $zipped = $zip->addFile( $File::Find::name );
}

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Thanks for the Help!

In reply to Duplicated Zip files by Anonymous Monk

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