14 years old! That's incredible.

>Why bring life to a 14 years old thread? If you want to compress a string, I strongly recommend VFPCompression which is totally free. http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2008/12/08/VFPCompressionUpdateACoupleOfFixesAndASlightEnhancement.aspx
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>>I have exactly the same problem and am scratching my head all along. Here is a sample of my code :
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>>Comp=CREATEOBJECT("XceedSoftware.XceedCompression")
>>?oComp.License("xxxx")
>>x=SPACE(100)
>>?oComp.Compress("abhay",@x,.t.) && Returns 0
>>?ocomp.GetErrorDescription(0) && Returns Operation completed successfuly.
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>>But the x variable remains blank. Nothing gets compressed at all.
>>
>>Just for this reason, I cannot decide for buying the Xceed component.
>>
>>Abhay