?? Coalesce for empty string?

Question

Something I find myself doing more and more is checking a string for empty (as in \"\" or null) and a conditional operator.

A current example:

Answer 1

There isn't a built-in way to do this. You could make your extension method return a string or null, however, which would allow the coalescing operator to work. This would be odd, however, and I personally prefer your current approach.

Since you're already using an extension method, why not just make one that returns the value or a default:

string result = s.SiteNumber.ConvertNullOrEmptyTo("No Number");