What is the best way to test for an empty string in Go?

Question

Which method is best (more idomatic) for testing non-empty strings (in Go)?

if len(mystring) > 0 { }

Or:

if mystring != \"\"         


        

Answer 1

This would be more performant than trimming the whole string, since you only need to check for at least a single non-space character existing

// Strempty checks whether string contains only whitespace or not
func Strempty(s string) bool {
    if len(s) == 0 {
        return true
    }

    r := []rune(s)
    l := len(r)

    for l > 0 {
        l--
        if !unicode.IsSpace(r[l]) {
            return false
        }
    }

    return true
}