Difference between null and empty (“”) Java String

Question

What is the difference between null and the \"\" (empty string)?

I have written some simple code:

String a = \"\";
String b         


        

Answer 1

Difference between null & empty string. For example: you have a variable named x. If you write in JS,

var x = "";

this means that you have assigned a value which is empty string (length is 0). Actually this is like something but which is feel of nothing :) On the other hand,

var y = null;

this means you've not assigned a value to y that clearly said by writing null to y at the time of declaration. If you write y.length; it will throw an error which indicates that no value assigned to y and as a result can't read length of y.