In reply to Mahmoud.

Mahmoud,

No, you have to extract the file from the ZIP archive in order to read it. That's pretty much true for any tool and process -- to read the content of the file, it has to be uncompressed first. Some tools (like Windows) make that look easy, but behind the scenes the file is being extracted before it's processed. The SAS code I've provided in this post shows how to do that.