Comma-free code
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A comma-free code is block code in which no concatenation of two code words contains a valid code word that overlaps both.[1]
Comma-free codes are also known as self-synchronizing block codes[2] because no synchronization is required to find the beginning of a code word.
In the literature, the requirement that all code words have to have the same length is sometimes dropped, resulting in the same class as self-synchronizing codes, see Self-synchronizing code.
See also
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- UTF-8, a comma-free character encoding
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