String.Empty Field (System) (original) (raw)

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

public: static initonly System::String ^ Empty;

public static readonly string Empty;

 staticval mutable Empty : string

Public Shared ReadOnly Empty As String 

Field Value

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 or String.Empty, use the IsNullOrEmpty method.

Applies to

See also

• IsNullOrEmpty(String)
• IsNullOrWhiteSpace(String)