How to read the contents of a .zip file with VBScript without actually extracting the files?

Question

I have a .zip file that starts with a parent directory. I need to read that dir from the file then search my HD to see if that dir name already exists. If it exists, I then

Answer 1

Assuming that you can use an external application, try downloading 7Zip and then have your script execute it with the -l switch. This should give you some output that you should be able to parse in some way.

Sample from the help file: 7z l archive.zip