Compressing and decompressing a string list

Question

Hi All,
i need a help:
i have an string list say,
String sample="test";
String sample1="test1";
String sample2="test3";
i want to compress this sample,sample1,sample2 and store that compressed results into another string variable.
Ex:
compressedSample=sample;
compressedSample1=sample1;
compressedSample2=sample2;
similarly how can i uncompress the compressedSample,compressedSample1,compressedSample2 variables.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try something like this :
Compressing :
ByteArrayOutputStream aos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
GZIPOutputStream gos = new GZIPOutputStream(aos);
byte[] ba = "the_string_to_compress".getBytes();
gos.write(ba,0,ba.length);
gos.flush();
String compressed_string = aos.toString();
gos.close();
Decompressing :
GZIPInputStream zin = new GZIPInputStream( new ByteArrayInputStream( compressed_string.getBytes() ) );
StringBuffer dat = new StringBuffer();
byte[] buf = new Byte[128];
for(int r; (r=zin.read(buf))!=-1;) dat.append( new String(buf,0,r) );
zin.close();
String org_string = dat.toString();