Question

While non-IE browsers can handle the null character fine, IE just gives up on life when it encounters a null character. It just stops rendering the page.

I figure, since null will never be a legit piece of text in my app, I could block or strip it out of queries sent to the database.

How would I do this / what is the best way?

Answer 1

You should probably do this kind of cleansing when the data is submitted instead of during presentation (on-the-way-in vs. on-the-way-out), but either way the code to strip null characters is the same: some_string.gsub(/\000/,"") … which merely strips null characters out of the offending string.