What is the right way to check for a null string in Objective-C?

Question

I was using this in my iPhone app

if (title == nil) {
    // do something
}

but it throws some exception, and the console shows that the ti

Answer 1

If you want to test against all nil/empty objects (like empty strings or empty arrays/sets) you can use the following:

static inline BOOL IsEmpty(id object) {
    return object == nil
        || ([object respondsToSelector:@selector(length)]
        && [(NSData *) object length] == 0)
        || ([object respondsToSelector:@selector(count)]
        && [(NSArray *) object count] == 0);
}