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# ZCompression.CompressBytes Method (console safe)

To compress the data given by the Bytes parameter, it returns the result as a string. If there is an error then the error code is in the ErrorValue property.

CompressBytes(
bytes as String) as String

#### Parameters

bytes
  The string to compress.

#### Returns

String

#### Remarks

With a zip algorithm, it is always up to the implementation or the file format to know the size of the original data. So you have to store the original size yourself.

#### See Also

ZCompression Class