Zlib

Functions for compression and decompression of string buffers.

zlib.deflate()

Deflate (compress) a buffer

A lua error is raised is on error

PARAMETERS

buf -

string buffer to deflate

RETURN

buf -

string deflated buffer

EXAMPLES

local data = "This is a string with uncompressed data."
local compressed_data = zlib.deflate(data)
local s = ""
for c in string.gmatch(compressed_data, ".") do
    s = s .. '\\' .. string.byte(c)
end
print(s) --> \120\94\11\201\200\44\86\0\162\68\133\226\146\162 ...


zlib.inflate()

Inflate (decompress) a buffer

A lua error is raised is on error

PARAMETERS

buf -

string buffer to inflate

RETURN

buf -

string inflated buffer

EXAMPLES

local data = "\120\94\11\201\200\44\86\0\162\68\133\226\146\162\204\188\116\133\242\204\146\12\133\210\188\228\252\220\130\162\212\226\226\212\20\133\148\196\146\68\61\0\44\67\14\201"
local uncompressed_data = zlib.inflate(data)
print(uncompressed_data) --> This is a string with uncompressed data.