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Difference between string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace and string.IsNullOrEmpty

By Ashok Nalam on 19 Nov 2013 | Category: C# | Tagged: string .NET difference 
The snippet covers difference between string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace and string.IsNullOrEmpty using an example.
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Most of the times we use string.IsNullOrEmpty and sometimes string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace. The method names itself are self explanatory but to understand them better we will see an example.

String.IsNullOrEmpty:
Function used to check whether string is null or empty. 
String.IsNullOrEmpty = (Variable == null || Variable == string.Empty)

String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace:
Function used to check whether a string is null, or contains only of white-space characters, or string.Empty
String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace = (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Variable) || Variable.Trim().Length == 0)

Example:
namespace DotNetMirror
{
    class StringIsNullOrWhiteSpaceAndStringIsNullOrEmpty
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string strVar1 = null;
            string strVar2 = "       ";
            string strVar3 = "    dnm   ";
            string strVar4 = "";
            string strVar5 = "dotnetmirror";

            #region IsNullOrWhiteSpace
            Console.WriteLine("IsNullOrWhiteSpace method");
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar1 {0}", CheckIsNullOrWhiteSpace(strVar1));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar2 {0}", CheckIsNullOrWhiteSpace(strVar2));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar3 {0}", CheckIsNullOrWhiteSpace(strVar3));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar4 {0}", CheckIsNullOrWhiteSpace(strVar4));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar5 {0}", CheckIsNullOrWhiteSpace(strVar5));
            #endregion
            #region IsNullOrEmpty
            Console.WriteLine("IsNullOrEmpty method");
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar1 {0}", CheckIsNullOrEmpty(strVar1));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar2 {0}", CheckIsNullOrEmpty(strVar2));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar3 {0}", CheckIsNullOrEmpty(strVar3));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar4 {0}", CheckIsNullOrEmpty(strVar4));
            Console.WriteLine("String strVar5 {0}", CheckIsNullOrEmpty(strVar5));
            #endregion

            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        public static string CheckIsNullOrWhiteSpace(string str)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(str))
                return string.Format("[{0}] is Null or Empty or White-space.", str);   
            else
                return string.Format("[{0}] is NOT Null or Empty or White-space.", str);
        }
        public static string CheckIsNullOrEmpty(string str)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))
                return string.Format("[{0}] is Null or Empty.", str);   
            else
                return string.Format("[{0}] is NOT Null or Empty.", str);
        }
    }
}

Output:

String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace vs String.IsNullOrEmpty
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