16.4 OECompress

bool OECompress(std::string &compressed, const char *original,
                unsigned int len, const char *format = "gz")
bool OECompress(std::string &compressed, const std::string &original,
                const char *format = "gz")

These functions compress the data in the original data buffer using the specified compression format and stores the compressed data in the compressed string. Returns whether or not the specified compression format was available and if the data was successfully compressed using that format.