How to Look for a binary sequence in a file

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byte[] array pattern search

I am trying to write a simple compression algorthm in C# and .NET 3.5 and I need to be able to search a particular file for occurrences of a certain sequence of bits. what is the fastest way of doing this?

Answer 1

Since the file is 8K I would start by reading all the bytes into an in memory array like this:

byte[] bytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(fileName);

There is a code sample to search in this stack overflow entry:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/283456/byte-array-pattern-search