Easiest way to check if string is null or empty

coffeescript
jcollum picture jcollum · Nov 14, 2011 · Viewed 62k times · Source

I've got this code that checks for the empty or null string. It's working in testing. 

eitherStringEmpty= (email, password) ->
  emailEmpty = not email? or email is ''
  passwordEmpty = not password? or password is ''
  eitherEmpty = emailEmpty || passwordEmpty         

test1 = eitherStringEmpty "A", "B" # expect false
test2 = eitherStringEmpty "", "b" # expect true
test3 = eitherStringEmpty "", "" # expect true
alert "test1: #{test1} test2: #{test2} test3: #{test3}"

What I'm wondering is if there's a better way than not email? or email is ''. Can I do the equivalent of C# string.IsNullOrEmpty(arg) in CoffeeScript with a single call? I could always define a function for it (like I did) but I'm wondering if there's something in the language that I'm missing.

Answer

thejh picture thejh · Nov 14, 2011

Yup:

passwordNotEmpty = not not password

or shorter:

passwordNotEmpty = !!password

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