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Anthony on 04/06/09


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Extension method to test whether a string is null or empty or whitespace

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  1. public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this string input)
  2. {
  3.     if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(input))
  4.         return true;
  5.  
  6.     return string.IsNullOrEmpty(input.Trim());
  7. }

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Posted By: GothikX on April 23, 2009

Using Regex is probably overkill here; a more efficient alternative would simply be (on the last line): return string.IsNullOrEmpty(input.Trim()); although it includes more characters than the regex version.

Posted By: Anthony on January 6, 2010

Thanks GothikX. I always assumed that Trim only got rid of spaces, which is why I used the RegEx. Your comment caused me to actually look at the docs on MSDN. Looks like Microsoft has updated it a little since VB5. :-) Thanks again.

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