UnZip compressed string to string - CSharp System.IO.Compression

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Description

UnZip compressed string to string

Demo Code


using System.Web;

public class Main{
        public static string UnZip(string value)
        {/*from   w  ww  . j a v a 2 s .  c  o  m*/
            //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 uncompressed 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();
        }
}

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