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

I think the best way is to compare with blank string

BenchmarkStringCheck1 is checking with blank string

BenchmarkStringCheck2 is checking with len zero

I check with the empty and non-empty string checking. You can see that checking with a blank string is faster.

BenchmarkStringCheck1-4     2000000000           0.29 ns/op        0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStringCheck1-4     2000000000           0.30 ns/op        0 B/op          0 allocs/op


BenchmarkStringCheck2-4     2000000000           0.30 ns/op        0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStringCheck2-4     2000000000           0.31 ns/op        0 B/op          0 allocs/op

Code

func BenchmarkStringCheck1(b *testing.B) {
    s := "Hello"
    b.ResetTimer()
    for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
        if s == "" {

        }
    }
}

func BenchmarkStringCheck2(b *testing.B) {
    s := "Hello"
    b.ResetTimer()
    for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
        if len(s) == 0 {

        }
    }
}