iOS compare string to null

[tranvutuan]

After parsing and get values for each elements from XML, one of the field is null like below

myXML.h
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *address;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *phone;

Below is my xml structure

<myXML>
  <address> A Street </address>
  <phone>  (null)      </phone>
</myXML>

I am doing a checking :

if ( ![myMXL.phone isEqualToString:@"null"] ) {
      NSLog(@"phone is not null");
else
      NSLog(@"phone is null");

After running the codes, the debugger gives me

phone is not null

It seems isEqualToString is not working.I also try !(myXML.phone == NULL) and !([myXML.phone isEqual:NULL]), but still get same problem
Does anyone have an idea about this.. pls advice me. Thanks

 

[tranvutuan]

After parsing and get values for each elements from XML, one of the field is null like below

myXML.h
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *address;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *phone;

Below is my xml structure

<myXML>
  <address> A Street </address>
  <phone>  (null)      </phone>
</myXML>

I am doing a checking :

if ( ![myMXL.phone isEqualToString:@"null"] ) {
      NSLog(@"phone is not null");
else
      NSLog(@"phone is null");

After running the codes, the debugger gives me

phone is not null

It seems isEqualToString is not working.I also try !(myXML.phone == NULL) and !([myXML.phone isEqual:NULL]), but still get same problem
Does anyone have an idea about this.. pls advice me. Thanks

I've just found the way how to solve this issue. Because phone is NNString so we can count the length of it. Therefore, instead of comparing to null, I did

if (!([phone length] == 0 ))
   // do sth here

But I am still looking for other solutions, so please answer if you have another solution. Thanks

 

[dantastic]

(null) is not a string, it's nothing. you can't compare it to the string "null"

if you want to check for null do

if (myMXL.phone) {
   NSLog(@"phone has a value: %@", myMXL.phone);
} else {
   NSLog(@"this will print (null): %@", myMXL.phone);
}

 

[tranvutuan]

(null) is not a string, it's nothing. you can't compare it to the string "null"

if you want to check for null do

if (myMXL.phone) {
   NSLog(@"phone has a value: %@", myMXL.phone);
} else {
   NSLog(@"this will print (null): %@", myMXL.phone);
}

I have just gave it a try but it does not work... What I got from the console is

phone has a value :(null)

I dont know why because we already know from OP, my phone is null

 

[dantastic]

odd..
Or do you actually have a string with "(null)" in it?
If you add

if (myMXL.phone) {
   NSLog(@"phone has a value: >%@< of Kind: %@, length: %i", myMXL.phone, [myMXL.phone class], [myMXL.phone length]);
} else {
   NSLog(@"this will print (null): %@", myMXL.phone);
}