Remove “empty” character from String

Question

I\'m using a framwork which returns malformed Strings with \"empty\" characters from time to time.

\"foobar\" for example is represented by: [,f,o,o,b,a,r]

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Answer 1

This is what worked for me:-

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (char character : myString.toCharArray()) {
        int i = (int) character;
        if (i > 0 && i <= 256) {
            sb.append(character);
        }
    }  
    return sb.toString();

The int value of my NULL characters was in the region of 8103 or something.