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Created October 15, 2013 12:32
JavaScript String compression
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LZW Compression/Decompression for Strings
Implementation of LZW algorithms from:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/LZW_compression#JavaScript
Usage:
var a = 'a very very long string to be squashed';
var b = a.compress(); // 'a veryāăąlong striċ to bečquashed'