method

blank?

v5.1.7 - Show latest stable - Class: String

blank?()

public

A string is blank if it’s empty or contains whitespaces only:

''.blank?       # => true
'   '.blank?    # => true
"\t\n\r".blank? # => true
' blah '.blank? # => false

Unicode whitespace is supported:

"\u00a0".blank? # => true

@return [true, false]

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb, line 116
  def blank?
    # The regexp that matches blank strings is expensive. For the case of empty
    # strings we can speed up this method (~3.5x) with an empty? call. The
    # penalty for the rest of strings is marginal.
    empty? || BLANK_RE.match?(self)
  end

blank?

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