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

If the binary records can really contain any data, try adding a length before the data instead of a marker after the data. This is sometimes called a prefix length because the length comes before the data.

Otherwise, you'd have to escape the delimiter in the byte stream (and escape the escape sequence).