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The discrete Wiener-Hopf operator generated by a function $a\left(e^{i\theta }\right)$ with the Fourier series ${\sum }_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}{a}_n{e}^{in\theta }$ is the operator T(a) induced by the Toeplitz matrix ${\left(a_{j-k}\right)}_{j,k=0}^{\infty }$ on some weighted sequence space $l^p({\mathbb{Z}}_{+},w)$. We assume that w satisfies the Muckenhoupt $A_p$ condition and that a is a piecewise continuous function subject to some natural multiplier condition. The last condition is in particular satisfied if a is of bounded variation. Our main result is a Fredholm criterion and an index formula for T(a). It implies that the essential spectrum...