isBlank property

  1. @useResult
bool get isBlank

Whether this is comprised of only whitespaces.

'  '.isBlank; // true

'\n '.isBlank; // true

'1 '.isBlank; // false

Whitespace is defined by the Unicode White_Space property (as defined in version 6.2 or later) and the BOM character, 0xFEFF.

Here is the list of trimmed characters according to Unicode version 6.3:

    0009..000D    ; White_Space # Cc   <control-0009>..<control-000D>
    0020          ; White_Space # Zs   SPACE
    0085          ; White_Space # Cc   <control-0085>
    00A0          ; White_Space # Zs   NO-BREAK SPACE
    1680          ; White_Space # Zs   OGHAM SPACE MARK
    2000..200A    ; White_Space # Zs   EN QUAD..HAIR SPACE
    2028          ; White_Space # Zl   LINE SEPARATOR
    2029          ; White_Space # Zp   PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
    202F          ; White_Space # Zs   NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
    205F          ; White_Space # Zs   MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
    3000          ; White_Space # Zs   IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE

    FEFF          ; BOM                ZERO WIDTH NO_BREAK SPACE

Some later versions of Unicode do not include U+0085 as a whitespace character. Whether it is trimmed depends on the Unicode version used by the system.

See isNotBlank.

Implementation

@useResult bool get isBlank => trim().isEmpty;