VB6 equivalent of string.IsNullOrEmpty
string, vb6
Solution
VB6 was designed to be easy
Use
If str = "" Then
' uninitialised, null or empty ""
- Strings are automatically initialized to [edit] a null string.
- The null string is vbNullString.
- But don't worry about null strings. A VB6 null string is indistinguishable from an empty string "" for (almost) any string manipulation.
Problem
I'm doing some work on a legacy application, and my VB6 skills aren't that great. I need to check whether a String field has been initialized and set to something other than null/nothing or an empty string. In C# I'd just do something like: ``` if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(myObj.Str)) ``` I'm not sure what the equivalent to this was in VB6, and I'm nervous about using `If myObj.Str = ""` and calling it good. What's the correct way to do this? To clarify, I want something that will return True if any of the following are true: - The field hasn't been initialized - The field is an empty string (str = "", length = 0) - The field is set to null, or Nothing, or vbnull, or whatever form of the null value applies to VB6 strings. The field was originally a Long, and the code I'm replacing checked whether it was set to 0.