[Newbies] testing a String argument

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Oct 2 20:38:31 UTC 2008


Am 02.10.2008 um 12:20 schrieb Mark Volkmann:

> What's the best way to set a local variable to true if an argument  
> that is supposed to be a String isn't nil and has a size of at least  
> 1? I know I can do this.
>
> hasContent := aString notNil and: [ aString isEmpty not ].
>
> but it feels like I'm making this simple test too hard.


Use #isEmptyOrNil.

- Bert -



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