ternary statement Null or Blank

Question

Currently I have the following ternary operation:

string value = "";

value = Company == null ? Name : Name + "," + Company;

Everything works great. However, I'd like to check if Company is null or "".

Is there a way to do that using a ternary statement?

Answer 1

use string.IsNullOrEmpty to check for null and empty string.

value = string.IsNullOrEmpty(Company) ? Name : Name + "," + Company;

if you are using .Net framework 4.0 or higher, and you want to consider white space as empty string as well then you can use string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace

Answer 2

Use this String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace

value = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Company) ? Name : Name + "," + Company;

of course you can also use this:

value = (Company == null || Company == "") ? Name : Name + "," + Company;

it's just for clarification that you can use more comples statements