From: Raf Coremans <rrafje@...>
Date: 2007-05-16T06:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Huffman Encoder (#123)

2007/5/15, Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) <donald.ball@nashville.gov>:
<snip>
> I also tried writing a binary encoder which packs
> and unpacks the bit strings generated by my string encoder, but it fails
> to decompress the entire text for long files, e.g. the program source
> code itself. I'm unsure why, perhaps someone more experienced in this
> arena can suggest why.

Perhaps because the file you want to encode already contains your
end-marker. The decoder stops when it encounters the first end-marker
(line 161). A binary file would not be unlikely to contain a NULL
character somewhere.

Regards,
Raf