LZW compression on C# from string

Question

I\'m looking for a LZW compression algorithm in C# that takes a \"string\" and returns a string. I\'ve googling for hours and all I\'ve found use MemoryStream, BinaryWriters, et

Answer 1

Use something like this:

private string CompressToLZW(string input)
{
    using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        ComputeLZW(input, stream);
        stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
        using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
        {
            return reader.ReadToEnd();
        }
    }
}

where ComputeLZW() is the LZW method you have that uses a stream.