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charliesome | karma 3785 | avg karma 8.74 · 2012-01-04 22:42:23+00:00

Well I dunno how they could possibly be null terminated if you can stick a null in any old string:

    >> "hello\0world".length
    => 11

zokier | karma 17208 | avg karma 2.54 · 2012-01-04 17:29:32

That could be explained with ruby doing escaping of null characters automatically in the background, although I don't believe that to be the case.