非常有用的帖子，添加NSDictionary支持以及一个小的变化

static inline BOOL isEmpty(id thing) {
    return thing == nil
    || [thing isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]
    || ([thing respondsToSelector:@selector(length)]
        && ![thing respondsToSelector:@selector(count)]
        && [(NSData *)thing length] == 0)
    || ([thing respondsToSelector:@selector(count)]
        && [thing count] == 0);
}

马克的回答是正确的。但我想借此机会引用Wil Shipley在他的博客上分享的一般化的isEmpty:

static inline BOOL IsEmpty(id thing) {
return thing == nil
|| ([thing respondsToSelector:@selector(length)]
&& [(NSData *)thing length] == 0)
|| ([thing respondsToSelector:@selector(count)]
&& [(NSArray *)thing count] == 0);
}

斯威夫特版本

即使这是一个Objective C问题，我需要在Swift中使用NSString，所以我也会在这里包括一个答案。

let myNSString: NSString = ""

if myNSString.length == 0 {
    print("String is empty.")
}

或者NSString是可选的:

var myOptionalNSString: NSString? = nil

if myOptionalNSString == nil || myOptionalNSString!.length == 0 {
    print("String is empty.")
}

// or alternatively...
if let myString = myOptionalNSString {
    if myString.length != 0 {
        print("String is not empty.")
    }
}

正常的Swift String版本是

let myString: String = ""

if myString.isEmpty {
    print("String is empty.")
}

请参见:检查Swift中的空字符串?

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);
}

在任何情况下，最好的方法是检查给定字符串的长度。如果你的字符串是myString，那么代码是:

    int len = [myString length];
    if(len == 0){
       NSLog(@"String is empty");
    }
    else{
      NSLog(@"String is : %@", myString);
    }

另一个选项是用isEqualToString检查它是否等于@"":如下所示:

if ([myString isEqualToString:@""]) {
    NSLog(@"myString IS empty!");
} else {
    NSLog(@"myString IS NOT empty, it is: %@", myString);
}