using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Text;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
try
{
// 1.Starting file is 26,747 bytes.
string anyString = File.ReadAllText("TextFile1.txt");
// 2.Output file is 7,388 bytes.
CompressStringToFile("new.gz", anyString);
}
catch
{
// Couldn't compress.
}
}
public static void CompressStringToFile(string fileName, string value)
{
// A.Write string to temporary file.
string temp = Path.GetTempFileName();
File.WriteAllText(temp, value);
// B. Read file into byte array buffer.
byte[] b;
using (FileStream f = new FileStream(temp, FileMode.Open))
{
b = new byte[f.Length];
f.Read(b, 0, (int)f.Length);
}
// C. Use GZipStream to write compressed bytes to target file.
using (FileStream f2 = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create))
using (GZipStream gz = new GZipStream(f2, CompressionMode.Compress, false))
{
gz.Write(b, 0, b.Length);
}
}
}
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