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Empty Field

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Represents the empty string. This field is read-only.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared ReadOnly Empty As String
public static readonly string Empty
public:
static initonly String^ Empty
static val Empty: string
public static final var Empty : String

Remarks

The value of this field is the zero-length string, "".

In application code, this field is most commonly used in assignments to initialize a string variable to an empty string. To test whether the value of a string is either null Nothing nullptr unit a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or String..::..Empty, use the IsNullOrEmpty method.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

String Class

System Namespace