Sherif Ramadan wrote:
I see these as two separate problems. The first problem is clearly a design problem (but we can't really do much about that in the short term).
One thing that came to mind when this first popped up was "Why isn't the string automatically zero padded?" Check my own uses I see that I've always had an even number of characters but that seems to be more by luck than design ...
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