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# gunzip

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The functionality described in this article is not yet available. This notice will be removed when   the appropriate release is made.
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The `gunzip` statement is used to inflate a GZIP file

## Syntax

**`gunzip`** *`filename`* **`as`** *`filename`*

**`gunzip`** *`{bufferName}`* **`as`** *`filename`*

## Details

The `gunzip` statement can be used to extract the contents of a GZIP archive containing a single file. The GZIP archive may be a file on disk or may be the contents of a named buffer. 

It is not possible to inflate GZIP data directly in memory, but the same effect can be achieved by extracting GZIP data in a named buffer to disk, and then loading the extracted data back into the named buffer as shown in the example below.

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All paths and filenames are treated as relative to the Exivity home directory
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## Example

```
# Download an archive and extract it into a named buffer
buffer archivedata = http GET http://server/archived.csv.gz
gunzip {archivedata} as system/extracted/extracted.csv
buffer archivedata = FILE system/extracted/extracted.csv

# Download an archive and extract it to disk, automatically deriving the
# output filename from the input filename based on the .gz extension
var save_path = system/extracted
var archivefile = extracted.csv.gz
set http save_file ${save_path}/${archivefile}

match csv_name "(.*)\.gz$" ${filename}
if (${csv_name.STATUS} != MATCH) {
    print WARNING: Downloaded file does not end in .gz and will not be extracted
} else {
	gunzip "${save_path}/${archivefile}" as "${save_path}/${csv_name.RESULT}"
	print Extracted file: "${save_path}/${csv_name.RESULT}"
}

```