compress/decompress string

Hi. I'm looking for a way to compress/decompress a lot of letters and numbers into a string.

Storing the location of all the doodad's in a map you would have it's Z-point, X-point, Z-point, It's Raw Data name and maybe some other stuff like it's size.

Example (but like 400-1000 times)
Raw = LFtg
X = -1200
Y = 1400
Z = 200
Size = 2

Any idea's? Anything I can think of off the top of my head it not very good.

Dunno, only things i can think of is to use JASS Helper. All I can think of to do this as they reduce cause JASS Helper can reduce these things pretty good.

Single player or multiplayer map? What format is the data currently in? Only .doo?

You can use a string array variable to store it.
set string[x] = "xxxx-yyyy-zzzz"
ie.
set string[1] = "0001-0001-0000"
set string[2] = "0002-0002-0000"
set string[3] = "0003-0003-0000"

-RaveEye
I don't quite understand what you mean but I don't want to use variables.

-PipeDream
The map will be multiplayer but for the process of making the map I need to do it in single player.

What I'm doing it making a map ingame by giving a unit dummy abilities and making it make doodads. Next I put all the doodad data into game cache and save the map. Then I use a program called Cache Converter made by PitzerMike to extract the doodad data so now when a game starts with a flat and empty map I can load anything I want onto it (doodads, terrain types, terrain deformations, units, etc).

All this data is going to be alot so I want to compress it somehow and store it all as one string.

In some cases, using variables can be more convenient and getting a value from a variable is also faster than using a gamecache and you should be able to notice the difference if you are trying to get a large amount of data at once. Seeing as how you want everything as one string, a string or string array would possibly be a better choice. As for compressing the strings, you could probably compress each x/y/z coordinate into about 2-3 letters depending on how large your map size is. As for how to go about compressing, I can't really help you there.

Nice, that's a good idea, it's like a trigger that saves everything in order to be loaded in another map.
Sounds good for testing purposes.

You basically want a save code then? It is just encoding of the positions I guess your issue is that the code gets big? When I was making the codemaker I looked for compression schemes, but the fact is that for small amount of information compressing doesn't work or actually does the opposite.

@Vexorian
What method did you end up using?

Also is there a max length for strings?