From d48921acc219d410113fa0d9cdf9b67d8a39ee31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ray Greenwell <ray@threerings.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:55:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added deNull().

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@5392 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1
---
 src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as b/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
index 7c700daf0..c6d673178 100644
--- a/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
+++ b/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ public class StringUtil
         return (str == null) || (str.search("\\S") == -1);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Return the specified String, or "" if it is null.
+     */
+    public static function deNull (str :String) :String
+    {
+        return (str == null) ? "" : str;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Does the specified string end with the specified substring.
      */