A new class of error correcting codes, the array codes, shows large usefulness in improving the reliability of two dimensional information. This class of codes could correct multiple burst errors and erasures represented by erroneous or erased columns in a code array. The paper presents an efficient decoding algorithm for erasures which affect two columns. It also shows a decoding that can be easily implemented based on an exclusive OR operation over GF (2).
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