Reference

Utility functions

These functions are implemented on top of the basic zlib stream-oriented functions. To simplify the interface, some default options are assumed (compression level and memory usage).

compress Function

Compress a string.

Signature:

compress string => (compressed-string)

Parameters:

• string – String to compress. An instance of <string>

Values:

• compressed-string – An instance of <string>

Discussion:

Compress the source string into a new string. If there is a problem in the compression process it raises an error.

Example:

let compressed = compress("Hello");