Public/ConvertFrom-StringToCompressedByteArray.ps1
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.SYNOPSIS Converts a string to a byte array object. .DESCRIPTION Converts a string to a byte array object. .PARAMETER String A string object for conversion. .EXAMPLE $bytes = ConvertFrom-StringToCompressedByteArray -String 'A string $bytes.GetType() IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType -------- -------- ---- -------- True True Object[] System.Array $bytes[0].GetType() IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType -------- -------- ---- -------- True True Byte System.ValueType .OUTPUTS [Byte[]] .LINK http://convert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/functions/ConvertFrom-StringToCompressedByteArray/ #> function ConvertFrom-StringToCompressedByteArray { [CmdletBinding(HelpUri = 'http://convert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/functions/ConvertFrom-StringToCompressedByteArray/')] param ( [Parameter( Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [String[]] $String, [ValidateSet('ASCII', 'BigEndianUnicode', 'Default', 'Unicode', 'UTF32', 'UTF7', 'UTF8')] [String] $Encoding = 'UTF8' ) begin { $userErrorActionPreference = $ErrorActionPreference } process { foreach ($s in $String) { try { $byteArray = [System.Text.Encoding]::$Encoding.GetBytes($s) [System.IO.MemoryStream] $output = [System.IO.MemoryStream]::new() $gzipStream = [System.IO.Compression.GzipStream]::new($output, ([IO.Compression.CompressionMode]::Compress)) $gzipStream.Write( $byteArray, 0, $byteArray.Length ) $gzipStream.Close() $output.Close() $output.ToArray() } catch { Write-Error -ErrorRecord $_ -ErrorAction $userErrorActionPreference } } } } |