Economical Encoding of Commas Between Strings A method for insertion of delimiters between strings without using new symbols is presented. As the lengths of the strings increase, the extra cost, in terms of prolongation, becomes vanishingly small compared to the lengths of the strings. CACM April, 1978 Even, S. Rodeh, M. String transmission, delimiters, commas, encoding of the integers 3.57 3.81 5.6 CA780408 DH February 26, 1979 3:36 PM 3108 5 3108 3108 5 3108 3108 5 3108