Question

Is there an elegant way to make whitespace string.
To be more precise, I’m looking for solution similar to following:

For an empty string I could write

string emptyString = "";

but instead I use this far more discriptive way

string emptyString = string.Empty;

Answer 1

Personally I prefer using "" over string.Empty, but there’s nothing stopping you from writing a string constants class:

public static class Strings
{
    public const string Space = " ";
}

...

string whitespace = Strings.Space;

(Note that I haven’t called it Whitespace, as that would be ambiguous – a tab character is whitespace, for example.)

Can’t say I’ve ever had much use for such a class though…