Reading content from gz file using c#

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Hi,

i want to read data which is in zipped in .gz format. it contains one log file with .log extension.

anyone can tell how to achieve this step using c#.i want to read the data line by line which is in gz file without extracting the file?

Thanks in advance

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Santhosh

Posted 9-Jan-11 22:46pm

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2011-01-09T22:54:00

Solution 1

This may help:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpziplib/[^]

You'll find exaples using google[^]

You can also take a loog at System.IO.Compression.GZipStream[^]

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 9-Jan-11 22:54pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2011-01-09T22:57:00

Solution 2

AFAIK you can't: .gz files aren't stored "line-by-line" and the files have to be extracted in their entirety before you can use them, at least to a temporary file / directory.

See MSDN GZipStream class[^] for further info.

Posted 9-Jan-11 22:57pm

OriginalGriff