code word prefix of another one at that point you know there's nothing else that can continue from this this is the thing is the complete thing sent across and the corresponding character can be decoded so another thing you can do but that might be consuming more bandwidth to space you could also end the stop character to each codeword the Morse decoding does this but this might be a little wasteful we can have a general prefix-free code and we'll look at that very soon so let's look at Morris first so in Morse code in what happens this