Thread: Simple string compression/Decompression

Here's an example using System.IO.Compression, substitute MemoryStream with FileStream for file storage:

Code:

'compress
Dim mem As New IO.MemoryStream
Dim gz As New System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(mem, IO.Compression.CompressionMode.Compress)
Dim sw As New IO.StreamWriter(gz)
sw.WriteLine("hello compression")
sw.Close()
 
'decompress
Dim mem2 As New IO.MemoryStream(mem.ToArray)
gz = New System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(mem2, IO.Compression.CompressionMode.Decompress)
Dim sr As New IO.StreamReader(gz)
MsgBox(sr.ReadLine)
sr.Close()