Question

I have a little question. Seems easy but I don’t get it working.
All I want is check if a string is empty or not. Here’s what I have so far:

if(mystring.text != @""){
    myPath = [myPath stringByAppendingString:mystring.text];
}

Answer 1

To compare an NSString to another one, you would use isEqualToString. You’re checking for inequality, so it would be:

NSString *text = ...;

if (![text isEqualToString:@""]) {
    ...
}

But really, since you’re just checking if the string is empty, you’ll want something like

NSString *text = ...;

if ([text length] != 0) {
    ...
}

Note that if text is nil, the code in the if-statement will not execute. This is because [nil length] will return 0. For more information about that, see “Sending Messages to nil” in Apple’s documentation.

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I suspect mystring.text is an NSString in your case, so it would be

if ([mystring.text length] != 0) {
    myPath = [myPath stringByAppendingString:mystring.text];
}