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Empty

The state of an uninitialized Variant variable. Variants that are Empty return a VarType of 0.

Empty isn't the same as Null, which is a variable state indicating invalid data. Variables containing zero-length strings (" ") aren't Empty, nor are numeric variables having a value of 0.