Delimiting binary sequences

Question

I need to be able to delimit a stream of binary data. I was thinking of using something like the ASCII EOT (End of Transmission) character to do this.

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Answer 1

Usually, you wrap your binary data in a well known format, for example with a fixed header that describes the subsequent data. If you are trying to find delimeters in an unknown stream of data, usually you need an escape sequence. For example, something like HDLC, where 0x7E is the frame delimeter. Data must be encoded such that if there is 0x7E inside the data, it is replaced with 0x7D followed by an XOR of the original data. 0x7D in the data stream is similarly escaped.