Comments on Impossible Siebel: Checking for an empty string

Hi Matt, this is an interesting point. Both method...

2010-02-10T18:40:18.845+11:00

Hi Matt, this is an interesting point. Both methods behave totally different. I'll cover this in a followup article.

I'm away from an instance of Tools at the mome...

2010-02-10T07:38:36.516+11:00

I'm away from an instance of Tools at the moment so can't check this but wonder if strong typing the variable being checked would have any impact? Eg.

var sMyString1 = "";
var sMyString2:String = "";

Would 1 and 2 behave the same?

This dosnt pass the empty string test var sEmpty=&...

2010-02-02T11:37:01.961+11:00

This dosnt pass the empty string test
var sEmpty="";

I'm interested to see if there are any other methods

method 5 if (sEmpty == null)

2010-02-02T11:28:18.445+11:00

method 5
if (sEmpty == null)