String is not null, empty, or empty string

Question

What is the quickest and easiest way (in Classic ASP) to check if a string has some string (that has a length greater than 0) i.e. NOT \"Null\", \"Nothing\", \"Empty\", or \

Answer 1

You could try having something like this:

Function nz(valToCheck, valIfNull)
 If IsNull(valToCheck) then
    nz = valIfNull
 Else
    nz = valToCheck
 End if
End function

and then you would use it like this:

if nz(var,"") <> "" then
  '--string has something in it
else
  '--string is null or empty
end is

Answer 2

<%
Dim x,y
x = "abcdefg"

'counting length of string
y = Len(x) 
Response.Write (y)


'checking string is empty or not
If Len(x) = 0 then 
Response.Write ("<p>String is empty</p>")
Else
Response.Write ("<p>String is not empty</p>")
End If
%>

Hope this is helpful.

Answer 3

This worked for me:

if mystring  = "" then wscript.echo "Empty string"
else wscript.echo "String is not empty"

Answer 4

To make sure that the Variant you deal with is of sub-type "string", you need the VarType or TypeName function. To rule out zero length strings, you need Len(). To guard against strings of space, you could throw in a Trim().

Code to illustrate/experiment with:

Option Explicit

Function qq(s) : qq = """" & s & """" : End Function

Function toLiteral(x)
  Select Case VarType(x)
    Case vbEmpty
      toLiteral = "<Empty>"
    Case vbNull
      toLiteral = "<Null>"
    Case vbObject
      toLiteral = "<" & TypeName(x) & " object>"
    Case vbString
      toLiteral = qq(x)
    Case Else
      toLiteral = CStr(x)
  End Select
End Function

Function isGoodStr(x)
  isGoodStr = False
  If vbString = VarType(x) Then
     If 0 < Len(x) Then
        isGoodStr = True
     End If
  End If
End Function

Dim x
For Each x In Array("ok", "", " ", 1, 1.1, True, Null, Empty, New RegExp)
    WScript.Echo toLiteral(x), CStr(isGoodStr(x))
Next

output:

cscript 26107006.vbs
"ok" True
"" False
" " True
1 False
1.1 False
True False
<Null> False
<Empty> False
<IRegExp2 object> False

Answer 5

Here's a one-liner that dodges all the trouble with Null by concatenating the value with an empty string. It works for Null, Empty, "", and, of course, strings with actual length! The only one it doesn't (nor shouldn't) work for is Nothing, because that's for object variables, of which a string is not.

isNullOrEmpty = (Len("" & myString) = 0)

Answer 6

You can use the VarType() function to check if it is a string, then you can check if the string is not empty. This statement will only pass through a string that isn't empty.

If VarType(MyString) = 8 Then
  If MyString <> "" Then 
    'String is Not Null And Not Empty, code goes here

  End If
End If