From 9a8c275822dd340ef8d64767f39fa416eaaa8e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Katherine A Miller <katherine.a.miller@uconn.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 22:42:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update error correction

---
 .gitignore/error correction | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore/error correction b/.gitignore/error correction
index 4d67fe9..3dc24ae 100644
--- a/.gitignore/error correction	
+++ b/.gitignore/error correction	
@@ -163,3 +163,22 @@ def stripFrames(frames):
         (payload, parityColumn, parityRow) = splitFrame(frame)
         newFrames.append(payload)
     return newFrames
+    
+def bin2string(frame, fill):
+    """ takes an 8x8 frame and fill and returns the string ecoded by the frame"""
+    string = []
+    for n in frame:
+            char = e.bin2char(n)
+            if char != fill:
+                string.append(char)
+    string = ''.join(string)
+    return string     
+
+def frames2string(frames, fill):
+    """iterates over each frame in a list of frames and returns the strings encoded by the frames"""
+    newStrings = []
+    for frame in frames:
+        s1 =  bin2string(frame, fill)
+        newStrings.append(s1)
+    newStrings = ''.join(newStrings)
+    return newStrings