NAME

       Compress::compressString - Compress a string.

SYNOPSIS

       String compressString( String instr )

ARGUMENTS

       instr The String to compress

DESCRIPTION

       Compress  a  string  using  zlib  and  returned  a  base64-encoded  compressed  string. If
       compression fails, a Compress.CompressionFailed (3kaya) Exception  will  be  thrown.  Note
       that  because  base64-encoding  increases the space required, if the compression factor is
       small, the compressed string may be larger than the original! In this case converting  the
       string to Binary form and using compressBinary may be better.

AUTHORS

       Kaya  standard  library  by  Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For
       further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

       The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the  terms  of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

RELATED

       Compress.compressBinary (3kaya)
       Compress.uncompressString (3kaya)