Another idea: Instead of pretending you want `table\0`, maybe we could do this:

```java
    meta_stop = createRegionSearchKey(table, stop); // will return "table,,:"
    meta_stop[table.length] = 0;  // now have "table\0,:"
    meta_stop[meta_stop.length - 1] = ',';  // now have "table\0,,"
```

Scanning until `table\0,,` is probably a bit better than until `table\0,,:`, just on the off-chance that someone named a table `table\0` (remember [Little Bobby Table](http://xkcd.com/327/)?)