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This question has this answer which suggests no:

if (str ==='' || str.trim() ===''){ return false; }

But some of the other approaches that use regular expressions return true ... For example:

Thoughts?

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza

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Accepted Answer · 2022-07-11T10:00:49.152Z

Yes.

An empty string is encoded (and so decoded) as an empty string in BASE64.

Note: The exact first reference test in the BASE64 standard is the empty string:

BASE64("") = ""