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Asked: 2026-05-23T19:23:27+00:00

Say 1 character is 1Byte, so i have 10 characters, and that is 10Bytes.

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Say 1 character is 1Byte, so i have 10 characters, and that is 10Bytes.

I have a sentence which contains of 20 characters and i need to upload this sentence to a server. and the limit is only 10 Bytes, how do i compress this sentence which is 20Bytes to 10Bytes.

Is there anyway i can do this via C# ?

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I have a 170 character sentence, i need to compress it in a way that it seems to be like 130characters. i am uploading this sentence to a 3rd party server, so i dont have any control over the server. Can this be done ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you want should be possible most of the time, but I can guarantee problems. If you wrote a method using the GZipStream class, it could take this 170 byte string you have and reduce it. Like most people have said, the compression ratio really depends on the content itself.

    Just as a test:
    I took a string of “0123456789” repeating 17 times (for 170 characters), gzipped it and it reduced to 21 characters.
    If I take a string of 170 zeros and gzip it, it gets reduced to 12 characters.
    I took 170 bytes of random code, and it gets reduced down to 79 characters.

    So in these cases, it would compress it down to fit into your space requirements; but there’s no way to predict when and how often it wouldn’t. The compression ratio may end up being 1:1 and there is an inherent overhead in creating the block structure, so it could actually result in compressed length of slightly larger than the original. Then again, you may have to base64 encode the whole thing to make it store properly in the DB, so that would increase your overhead even more.

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