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Empty string

In formal language theory, the empty string, also known as the empty word or null string, is the unique string of length zero.

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Formal theory

Use in programming languages

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Empty string

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples18
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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Empty string

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is a · 5
Empty string → identity element of the concatenation operation, legitimate string, palindrome, special case where the sequence has length zero, syntactically valid representation of zero in positional notation
related to Formal theory · 4
Empty string → Formally, In, The, There
related to Use in programming languages · 4
Empty string → However, In, Such, Thus
related to Representations of the empty string · 3
Empty string → Since, The, Zero-filled

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string empty formal zero strings theory languages memory length text language null programming also sequence one two set even thus

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Empty stringis aspecial case where the sequence has length zero0.90text
Empty stringis aidentity element of the concatenation operation0.90text
Empty stringis apalindrome0.90text
Empty stringis alegitimate string0.90text
Empty stringis asyntactically valid representation of zero in positional notation0.90text
lettersinstance ofordered sequence of characters0.80text
digits or spacesinstance ofordered sequence of characters0.80text
Empty stringrelated to Formal theoryFormally0.60section
Empty stringrelated to Formal theoryThe0.60section
Empty stringrelated to Formal theoryThere0.60section
Empty stringrelated to Formal theoryIn0.60section
Empty stringrelated to Representations of the empty stringThe0.60section

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