Yeah, ok.
But the code is so messy, I am kind of reluctant to share it as it isn't nice at all.
I guess that is a problem I need to address about being too reluctant to post code.
I wrote this (or started writing this) years ago when I had abs(no) idea/understanding of how to do things. It was more get things that did stuff I wanted and stick them together to get a working (bad choice) code.
As I got better things changed, and so on. I am sure you could appreciate this journey.
Ok so the size of the message is handy. I just add 8 to that and make sure I send 8 x blank digits - was my thinking.
Though now that doesn't seem to be needed.... Though I guess it could go in this line rather than the 24
for ( int i = 0 ; i < 24 ; i++ )
and maybe give it a better name. Like message_length
I'll go away and see what happens in the bigger picture.
I hope things meld together and it isn't that difficult.