If your goal is storing opaque strings, that is a very silly thing to do. At that point you’re just blowing up storage for no reason. Just use an int if you’re

If your goal is storing opaque strings, that is a very silly thing to do. At that point you’re just blowing up storage for no reason. Just use an int if you’re that sure. Setting a string length to coincidentally the length of a int serialized to a string while doing no other validation on it is…. Just special.