Xojo Plugin

Compress a String and Save as a Gzip File

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This example demonstrates how to use the CompressStringToFile method to compress a string and write the result directly to a Gzip (.gz) file.

The input string is first converted to its byte representation using the specified character set (in this case, UTF-8). The resulting bytes are then compressed using the Gzip format, and the compressed output is written directly to the specified file.

This method is convenient when you want to generate a compressed file from in-memory text without needing intermediate objects such as BinData or StringBuilder.

Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// This example demonstrates how to compress a string and save the result
// directly to a Gzip (.gz) file.

Dim gzip As New Chilkat.Gzip

// The string to be compressed:
Dim inputStr As String
inputStr = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

// Compress the string using UTF-8 and write to a file:
success = gzip.CompressStringToFile(inputStr,"utf-8","output.gz")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(gzip.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Compression successful.")
System.DebugLog("Gzip file written to output.gz")