我见过的最好的解决方案之一(比Matt G的更好)是这个改进的内联函数，我从一些Git Hub repo (Wil Shipley的一个，但我找不到链接):

// Check if the "thing" passed is empty
static inline BOOL isEmpty(id thing) {
    return thing == nil
    || [thing isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]
    || ([thing respondsToSelector:@selector(length)]
        && [(NSData *)thing length] == 0)
    || ([thing respondsToSelector:@selector(count)]
        && [(NSArray *)thing count] == 0);
}

最好的方法是使用分类。 您可以检查以下功能。它有所有需要检查的条件。

-(BOOL)isNullString:(NSString *)aStr{
        if([(NSNull *)aStr isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]){
            return YES;
        }
        if ((NSNull *)aStr  == [NSNull null]) {
            return YES;
        }
        if ([aStr isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]){
            return YES;
        }
        if(![[aStr stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]] length]){
            return YES;
        }
        return NO;
    }

- (BOOL)isEmpty:(NSString *)string{
    if ((NSNull *) string == [NSNull null]) {
        return YES;
    }
    if (string == nil) {
        return YES;
    }
    if ([string length] == 0) {
        return YES;
    }
    if ([[string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]] length] == 0) {
        return YES;
    }
    if([[string stringByStrippingWhitespace] isEqualToString:@""]){
        return YES;
    }
    return NO;
}

//Different validations:
 NSString * inputStr = @"Hey ";

//Check length
[inputStr length]

//Coming from server, check if its NSNull
[inputStr isEqual:[NSNull null]] ? nil : inputStr

//For validation in allowed character set
-(BOOL)validateString:(NSString*)inputStr
{
    BOOL isValid = NO;
    if(!([inputStr length]>0))
    {
        return isValid;

    }

    NSMutableCharacterSet *allowedSet = [NSMutableCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@".-"];
    [allowedSet formUnionWithCharacterSet:[NSCharacterSet decimalDigitCharacterSet]];
    if ([inputStr rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[allowedSet invertedSet]].location == NSNotFound)
    {
        // contains only decimal set and '-' and '.'

    }
    else
    {
        // invalid
        isValid = NO;

    }
    return isValid;
}

你可以检查[string length] == 0。这将检查它是否是一个有效的空字符串(@"")以及它是否为nil，因为在nil上调用length也将返回0。

试试下面的方法

NSString *stringToCheck = @"";

if ([stringToCheck isEqualToString:@""])
{
   NSLog(@"String Empty");
}
else
{
   NSLog(@"String Not Empty");
}