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Decompress String Function
Co Decs Class

Public Function DecompressString( _
    ByVal vString As Variant _
    ) As Variant

Decompress a string which was compressed with the CompressString functions.
Uses the first character of the string to identify which text decompression algorithm to use to decompress the string.

Examples: 
    DecompressString(Chr$(3) + "ZYXWVU") = "ZYXWVU"
    DecompressString(Chr$(2) + "AB" + Chr$(255) + Chr$(5) + "CDE") = "ABCCCCCDE"
    DecompressString("Sample") = "Sample" ' #3
See also: 
    CompressString Function
    DecompressStringLength Function
    RunLengthDecode Function
    UnsqueezeString Function
vString: The compressed string which is to be decompressed. Function returns Null if vString is Null or cannot be fixed up to a String.

Function returns an empty string if vString is an empty string.

Function returns vString unchanged if its first character is not a valid identifier of one of the text compression techniques as in example #3.

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