class ZipLib
{
public static string Zip(string value)
{
//Transform string into byte[]
byte[] byteArray = new byte[value.Length];
int indexBA = 0;
foreach (char item in value.ToCharArray())
{
byteArray[indexBA++] = (byte)item;
}
//Prepare for compress
System.IO.MemoryStream ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
System.IO.Compression.
gzipStream sw = new System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(ms,
System.IO.Compression.CompressionMode.Compress);
//Compress
sw.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
//Close, DO NOT FLUSH cause bytes will go missing...
sw.Close();
//Transform byte[] zip data to string
byteArray = ms.ToArray();
System.Text.StringBuilder sB = new System.Text.StringBuilder(byteArray.Length);
foreach (byte item in byteArray)
{
sB.Append((char)item);
}
ms.Close();
sw.Dispose();
ms.Dispose();
return sB.ToString();
}
public static string UnZip(string value)
{
//Transform string into byte[]
byte[] byteArray = new byte[value.Length];
int indexBA = 0;
foreach (char item in value.ToCharArray())
{
byteArray[indexBA++] = (byte)item;
}
//Prepare for decompress
System.IO.MemoryStream ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream(byteArray);
System.IO.Compression.GZipStream sr = new System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(ms, System.IO.Compression.CompressionMode.Decompress);
//Reset variable to collect uncompres
sed result
byteArray = new byte[byteArray.Length];
//Decompress
int rByte = sr.Read(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
//Transform byte[] unzip data to string
System.Text.StringBuilder sB = new System.Text.StringBuilder(rByte);
//Read the number of bytes GZipStream red and do not a for each bytes in
//resultByteArray;
for (int i = 0; i < rByte; i++)
{
sB.Append((char)byteArray[i]);
}
sr.Close();
ms.Close();
sr.Dispose();
ms.Dispose();
return sB.ToString();
}
}