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--- notes:discrete:fall2022:projects:rle2 [2022/10/30 16:00] – [VERIFICATION] hcordell
+++ notes:discrete:fall2022:projects:rle2 [2022/11/03 02:53] (current) – [PROGRAM] dkienenb
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 Run-length encoding (RLE) algorithm is a lossless compression of runs of data, where repeated sequences of data are stored as a representation of a single data value and its count (how many times it repeats consecutively). RLE encoding is commonly used in JPEG, TIFF, and PDF files, to name a few examples.
 =====SPECIFICATIONS=====
+If a control byte is present inside your data but does not include encoded data with it, you will have to make modifications to your encode/decode process. If this happens during your encoder, the output should be: control_byte 01 01 control_byte. Your decoder should be able to handle if this happens and properly decode that as "control_byte" with control byte being whatever control byte belongs to that file.
+=====REFERENCES=====
+STRIDES and CONTROL BYTES for given files: \\
+**sample0.txt:** Stride: 1, Control Byte: 0x62(B)\\
+**sample1.txt:** Stride: 30, Control Byte: 0xff(255)\\
+**sample2.bmp:** Stride: 6, Control Byte: 0x25(37)\\
+**sample3.wav:** Stride: 73, Control Byte: 0x17(23)\\
+**sample5.txt:** Stride: 4, Control Byte: 0x29(41)\\
 Please reference the image below to find the hexadecimal value of the ASCII symbols:
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+**NOTE** Control value is input as a decimal 0-255. When running encode for this project, the control value should be input as '61' for a, '62' for b, etc.. So, in order to do this, you will need to do some conversion within rle2 in order to convert the 61 decimal into hexadecimal. One way to do this is possibly sscanf. The same is true of the stride.
+**NOTE** To convert a string argument into a usable decimal, set your desired variable equal to //atoi()// and put the string argument you wish to convert in the function. This works with unsigned chars as well as ints. If you atoi to an unsigned char, it is easy to put it into the header array with a simple assignment.
 ===Explanation===
 Input-file->the name of the file that is being encoded/decoded
-Outpath->???
+Outpath->The path to the output file NOT including the filename (ie '~/rle2/x.rle' -> '~/rle/')\\
 Stride->How long the chain of bundled characters is (ie. 1ab is 2, 1abc is 3, etc)\\
 Control->A value chosen to signal that the following bits are compressed, and thus will need to be decoded. Preferably the least common bit, as false positives are a possibility
 =====DATA HEADER SPECIFICATIONS=====

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