How do I use GZipStream with System.IO.MemoryStream?

Question

I am having an issue with this test function where I take an in memory string, compress it, and decompress it. The compression works great, but I can\'t seem to get the dec

Answer 1

Another implementation, in VB.NET:

Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices
Imports System.IO
Imports System.IO.Compression

Public Module Compressor

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    Function CompressASCII(str As String) As Byte()

        Dim bytes As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(str)

        Using ms As New MemoryStream

            Using gzStream As New GZipStream(ms, CompressionMode.Compress)

                gzStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)

            End Using

            Return ms.ToArray

        End Using

    End Function

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    Function DecompressASCII(compressedString As Byte()) As String

        Using ms As New MemoryStream(compressedString)

            Using gzStream As New GZipStream(ms, CompressionMode.Decompress)

                Using sr As New StreamReader(gzStream, Encoding.ASCII)

                    Return sr.ReadToEnd

                End Using

            End Using

        End Using

    End Function

    Sub TestCompression()

        Dim input As String = "fh3o047gh"

        Dim compressed As Byte() = input.CompressASCII()

        Dim decompressed As String = compressed.DecompressASCII()

        If input <> decompressed Then
            Throw New ApplicationException("failure!")
        End If

    End Sub

End Module