sparse: fix alist format by including padding #3
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In #2 it was pointed that the alist format used by ldpc-toolbox is incorrect because it does not include zeros for padding of irregular codes, as required by MacKay's original definition.
This fixes the problem in the following way:
The SparseMatrix::from_alist function supports reading both the format with zero padding and the format without zero padding.
The SparseMatrix::write_alist and SparseMatrix::alist functions now include zero padding. There are variants of these functions called write_alist_no_padding and alist_no_padding which omit the zero padding.
Additionally, the whitespace at the end of each line generated by write_alist has been removed.