On Oct 30, 4:11 ¨Âí¬ ÂåòôòáÓãèáòð¼ìé®®®Àâåòôòáíóãèáòðæ®äå¾ ÷òïôåº [...] > By the way: Still I'm convinced that there should be a > `String#notempty?' method corresponding to `Numeric#nonzero?'. > > Bertram > > -- > Bertram Scharpf > Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germanyhttp://www.bertram-scharpf.de Maybe I'm totally missing the point here, but I thought String.any? was good enough to tell whether a string has contents: 'asdf'.any? # => true ''.any? # => false 'asdf'.empty? # => false ''.empty? # => true