NSString is empty

Question

How do you test if an NSString is empty? or all whitespace or nil? with a single method call?

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

@implementation NSString (JRAdditions)

+ (BOOL)isStringEmpty:(NSString *)string {
   if([string length] == 0) { //string is empty or nil
       return YES;
   } 

   if(![[string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]] length]) {
       //string is all whitespace
       return YES;
   }

   return NO;
}

@end

Check out the NSString reference on ADC.