From 72227ddfae951fac72bb64cec3f342eb56f9ebd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SymmetricChaos <42520289+SymmetricChaos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:51:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update run_length_bytes.rs

---
 codes/src/compression/run_length_bytes.rs | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/codes/src/compression/run_length_bytes.rs b/codes/src/compression/run_length_bytes.rs
index 4b1f9f7f..44619dff 100644
--- a/codes/src/compression/run_length_bytes.rs
+++ b/codes/src/compression/run_length_bytes.rs
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ impl Code for RunLengthEncoding {
             .text_to_bytes(text)
             .map_err(|_| CodeError::input("invalid input bytes"))?;
 
+        if !bytes.len().is_even() {
+            return Err(CodeError::input("the rle must be an even number of bytes"));
+        }
+
         Ok(self.output_format.byte_slice_to_text(&rle_to_bytes(&bytes)))
     }
 }