deflate and inflate (zlib.h) in C

Question

I am trying to implement the zlib.h deflate and inflate functions to compress and decompress a char array (not a file).

I would like to know if the following syntax

Answer 1

zlib already has a simple inflate/deflate function you can use.

char a[50] = "Hello, world!";
char b[50];
char c[50];

uLong ucompSize = strlen(a)+1; // "Hello, world!" + NULL delimiter.
uLong compSize = compressBound(ucompSize);

// Deflate
compress((Bytef *)b, &compSize, (Bytef *)a, ucompSize);

// Inflate
uncompress((Bytef *)c, &ucompSize, (Bytef *)b, compSize);

When in doubt, check out the zlib manual. My code is crappy, sorry =/