From: Michal <lists+rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-11-27T22:56:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Usage of Zlib?

Hi,

> Can someone show me a code snippet, including require '...'
> for deflating a string with Zlib?

how about this:

require 'zlib'

Zlib::Deflate.deflate("abc")
# => "x\234KLJ\006\000\002M\001'"
Zlib::Deflate.deflate("a"*5000)
# => "x\234\355\3011\001\000\000\000\302\240\254\353_\302\024~@\001\000\000\000\000o\003Kof\362"

Zlib::Inflate.inflate(Zlib::Deflate.deflate("a"*5000)).size
# => 5000

M.
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