From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T18:03:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Help me about nil check of veriable( question of a niw bie)

On 3/27/07, Sasaki <amin@e-sao.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>         I have a string variable named as 'last_name'. how can i check
> NULL(nil) of this veriable?
>
> as exapmle
>  if ( empty(last_name) )   #*
>     # code
> else
> #code
> end
>
>

Hi,

I think the .nil? method is the one you're looking for:

irb(main):001:0> some_nil = nil
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> some_nil.nil?
=> true

Hope that helps,
-Harold