Question

I have code that should do the compression:

FileStream fs = new FileStream("g:\\gj.txt", FileMode.Open);
FileStream fd = new FileStream("g:\\gj.zip", FileMode.Create);
GZipStream csStream = new GZipStream(fd, CompressionMode.Compress);

byte[] compressedBuffer = new byte[500];
int offset = 0;
int nRead;

nRead = fs.Read(compressedBuffer, offset, compressedBuffer.Length);
while (nRead > 0)
{
    csStream.Write(compressedBuffer, offset, nRead);
    offset = offset + nRead;
    nRead = fs.Read(compressedBuffer, offset, compressedBuffer.Length);
}

fd.Close();
fs.Close();

and I think it does, but I want to decompress what was compressed the way above. I do somethink like that:

FileStream fd = new FileStream("g:\\gj.new", FileMode.Create);
FileStream fs = new FileStream("g:\\gj.zip", FileMode.Open);
GZipStream csStream = new GZipStream(fs, CompressionMode.Decompress);

byte[] decompressedBuffer = new byte[500];
int offset = 0;
int nRead;

nRead=csStream.Read(decompressedBuffer, offset, decompressedBuffer.Length);
while (nRead > 0)
{
    fd.Write(decompressedBuffer, offset, nRead);
    offset = offset + nRead;
    nRead = csStream.Read(decompressedBuffer, offset, decompressedBuffer.Length);
}

fd.Close();
fs.Close();

and here it doesn’t… I’ve got nRead = 0 befeore entering the loop… What I do wrong??
The test file I use is the simpliest TEXT file (size: 104 bytes)…

Answer 1

My first thought is that you haven’t closed csStream. If you use using this happens automatically. Since gzip buffers data, you could be missing some.

Secondly; don’t increment offset; that is the offset in the buffer (not the stream). Leave at 0:

using (Stream fs = File.OpenRead("gj.txt"))
using (Stream fd = File.Create("gj.zip"))
using (Stream csStream = new GZipStream(fd, CompressionMode.Compress))
{
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    int nRead;
    while ((nRead = fs.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length))> 0)
    {
        csStream.Write(buffer, 0, nRead);
    }
}

using (Stream fd = File.Create("gj.new.txt"))
using (Stream fs = File.OpenRead("gj.zip"))
using (Stream csStream = new GZipStream(fs, CompressionMode.Decompress))
{
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    int nRead;
    while ((nRead = csStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
    {
        fd.Write(buffer, 0, nRead);
    }
}