From: Jason Creighton Date: 2003-07-22T12:27:28+09:00 Subject: Re: nil_or_empty? on String > I wanted to avoid this: > > if (user.nil? || user.empty?) && !(pswd.nil? || pswd.empty?) You could do something like: if user.to_s.empty? && pswd.to_s.empty? Jason Creighton