In formal language theory, the empty string (or null string) is the unique string of length zero.
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Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or string:
“And the empty pages?
Should they ever be filled
Let it be with observed
Celestial recurrences....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)