How to compress a String in Java?

Question

I use GZIPOutputStream or ZIPOutputStream to compress a String (my string.length() is less than 20), but the compressed result is long

Answer 1

Take a look at the Huffman algorithm.

https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/44473/huffman-code-implementation

The idea is that each character is replaced with sequence of bits, depending on their frequency in the text (the more frequent, the smaller the sequence).

You can read your entire text and build a table of codes, for example:

Symbol Code

a 0

s 10

e 110

m 111

The algorithm builds a symbol tree based on the text input. The more variety of characters you have, the worst the compression will be.

But depending on your text, it could be effective.