Re: [Vala] How to check if string is empty

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Am 2017-01-17 um 12:09 schrieb rastersoft:

> That's true for the first one, but the second is as fast as str[0] == 0,
> because as soon as one byte doesn't fit, the function ends.

You are right, because str=="" indeed calls g_strcmp0(), but
str[0]=='\0' calls string_get() which seems not faster that g_strcmp0().

So the fastest (C-like) solution would be:

bool is_null_or_empty3 (string? str)
{
   return str == null || *(char*)str == '\0';
}

But it's ugly ;-)