A survey is presented of some methods and results on counting words that satisfy various restrictions on subwords (i.e., blocks of consecutive symbols). Various applications to commafree codes, games, pattern matching, and other subjects are indicated. The emphasis is on the unified treatment of those topics through the use of generating functions.
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Odlyzko, A. M. (1985). Enumeration of Strings. In Combinatorial Algorithms on Words (pp. 205–228). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82456-2_14
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