Method: String#blank?

Defined in:
lib/vendor/rails_blank.rb

#blank?true, false

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

Returns:

  • (true, false)


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# File 'lib/vendor/rails_blank.rb', line 118

def blank?
  BLANK_RE === self
end