what is diff b/w null string and empty string

See, Null means string doesn't have any value. An empty string is a value, but is just empty. Null has no bounds that means it can be used for string, integer, date.. Empty string is just regarding a string with length equals to zero.

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G. S.
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Empty string is allocated a memory location with value "" and the NULL value is just a pointer pointing nowhere in the memory.
Empty - It has empty value.
NULL - It has no value.
For eg :

String str = ""; 

str.lentgh;  // return 0 

String str = null; 

str.lentgh;  //returns a null pointer exception

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char str1[]=NULL
String str = null;

str.lentgh;

null means it will raise null pointer exception means we cant leave a field empty after defing it as not null
char str2[]=""; String str="";
str.length; output.........0

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string str=null //this will not create an object. In stack memory will be allocated for str but since its null object, no memory allocation in heap.
string str=""; //this will create an object and allocate it in heap with value "";

moreover null is NOT a value. It is a state indicating that the object value is unknown or nonexistent. It is not zero or blank or an "empty string" and it does not behave like any of these values.

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In .Net pre 2.0, "" creates an object while String.Empty creates no object. So it is more efficient to use String.Empty.
.Length == 0 is the fastest option, but .Empty makes for slightly cleaner code.
So "" is pretty equivalent to .Empty, but still not as fast as .Length == 0.

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