Pike v8.1 release 6

Method Bz2.Deflate()->deflate()


Method deflate

string deflate(string data, int(0..2)|void flush_mode)

Description

This function performs bzip2 style compression on a string data and returns the packed data. Streaming can be done by calling this function several times and concatenating the returned data.

The optional argument flush_mode should be one of the following:

Bz2.BZ_RUN

Runs Bz2.Deflate->feed()

Bz2.BZ_FLUSH

Runs Bz2.Deflate->read()

Bz2.BZ_FINISH

Runs Bz2.Deflate->finish()

See also

Bz2.Inflate->inflate()