Check if a BSTR is empty

Question

I have a variant that contains a BSTR, but sometimes the BSTR is "" (empty), so how to avoid this? I have tried something like:

variant.bstrVal != NULL

But it didn't work.

Answer 1

You can test the vt member of VARIANT for VT_NULL or VT_EMPTY

if (variant.vt != VT_NULL)
{
   ...
}

Answer 2

Use SysStringLen:

if (SysStringLen(variant.bstrVal) == 0)
{ ... }