isNotBlank

inline fun CharSequence.isNotBlank(): Boolean(source)

Returns true if this char sequence is not empty and contains some characters except whitespace characters.

Since Kotlin

1.0

Samples

import java.util.Locale
import kotlin.test.*

fun main() { 
   //sampleStart 
   fun validateName(name: String): String {
    require(name.isNotBlank()) { "Name cannot be blank" }
    return name
}

println(validateName("Adam")) // Adam
// validateName("") // will fail
// validateName("  \t\n") // will fail 
   //sampleEnd
}
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fun validateName(name: String): String {
    require(name.isNotBlank()) { "Name cannot be blank" }
    return name
}
println(validateName("Adam")) // Adam
// validateName("") // will fail
// validateName("  \t\n") // will fail 
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Target: JVMRunning on v.2.1.20

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