Beginner needs help with text files

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I had posted this in comp.lang.visual.basic and haven't recieved a reply
(to be fair it's only been one day), but then came across this group and
there is much more activity here..
My apologies for cross posting(?) .

Hello all,
Hope this is the correct group for this question.
I couldn't find a vb beginners group.
I am getting overwhelmed and need some help.
I did this very easily in a batch file (only three lines), but DOS is too
limited and the use of the batch is presenting other problems (file is
compressed so I get garbage characters in the output file which I can't
edit).
I also wanted some other functionality added and decided to try VB6.

Problem - (Totally lost and frustrated)
How do I search all files with a given extension (ex. *.zip) for text
inside
those files and output those lines (strings) to a text file?
I need to be able to use wildcards, so from what I read the use of the File
System Object is not going to help me.
The files are compressed (don't know if that matters).
The text lines (strings) in the files I am looking for would be something
like *.bspPK(trailing garbage characters)

Any help will be much appreciated.
Thank you



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