G-Zip compression using C#

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• G-Zip Compression and decompression using C# and the .Net framework

 

 

G-Zip compression using C#

This article will teach you how to compress and decompress data with G-Zip using C# and .NET
For more information regarding G-Zip please visit: https://www.gzip.org

The following class will compress and decompress data using the G-Zip algorythm:

public static class GZipCompressor
{
    public static byte[] GZipCompress(byte[] source)
    {
        using (var outStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            using (var gzipStream = new GZipStream(outStream, CompressionMode.Compress))
            {
                using (var ms = new MemoryStream(source))
                {
                    ms.CopyTo(gzipStream);
                }
            }

            return outStream.ToArray();
        }
    }

    public static byte[] GZipDecompress(byte[] compressed)
    {
        using (var inStream = new MemoryStream(compressed))
        {
            using (var gzipStream = new GZipStream(inStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
            {
                using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    gzipStream.CopyTo(ms);
                    return ms;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

If your source data type is 'string', you can get a byte array with Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myString). To convert a byte array back to a string you can use Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray()) Here's a variation of the above class that will compress/decompress strings:

public static class GZipCompressor
{
    public static byte[] GZipCompress(string inputString)
    {
        using (var outStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            using (var gzipStream = new GZipStream(outStream, CompressionMode.Compress))
            {
                using (var ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(inputString)))
                {
                    ms.CopyTo(gzipStream);
                }
            }

            return outStream.ToArray();
        }
    }

    public static string GZipDecompress(byte[] compressed)
    {
        using (var inStream = new MemoryStream(compressed))
        {
            using (var gzipStream = new GZipStream(inStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
            {
                using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    gzipStream.CopyTo(ms);
                    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Happy Coding! ;)