Generic Function to Check Empty\Null string in JavaScript

In this code you will learn Generic Function to Check Empty\Null string in JavaScript.

Introduction

 

A generic function in JavaScript similar to"String.IsNullOrEmpty" of C#, to check whether the specified string is null or empty.

How often we check a string for Null, Undefined & empty string in a JavaScript code. Here is my very basic method StringHasValue to check if a string is either null, undefined or if it’s an empty string (String to be checked may contain white-spaces, that is also considered). Although it’s a very basic method definitely it is going to save our time, less coding efforts & it will be less error-prone.

var StringHasValue = function(strValue){
   if($.trim(strValue) != "" && $.trim(strValue) != null && $.trim(strValue) != undefined)
   return true;
   else
   return false;
};

This function returns boolean, true if the string has some value & false if it's null or an empty string.

 

We can simply use this function in our entire application like this:

if(StringHasValue($("#ddlCountries").val())
alert("Yes");
else
alert("No");