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Is the empty char the same as the null char?


Asked by Talon Clements on Nov 30, 2021 FAQ



The null/empty char is simply a value of zero, but can also be represented as a character with an escaped zero. Yes, and there is no "empty char". '\0' is the null char which has nothing to do with NULL; the null char is simply a char having 0 as numeric code. – Lorenzo Donati supports Monica Aug 23 '13 at 19:30
One may also ask,
2 Answers 2. The answer to your question(s) is Yes. Yes, the CHAR type can be NULLable. I believe every column type can allow for . Yes, the CHAR type can be an empty string. The DB will not see an empty string as any different from any other string.
Besides, Just in order to maintain my image of being a nitpicker: (char *)NULL is the empty string, "\0" is a string of size 0. All things begin as source code.
In respect to this,
A null string has no values. It’s an empty char array, one that hasn’t been assigned any elements. The string exists in memory, so it’s not a NULL pointer. It’s just absent any elements. An empty string has a single element, the null character, '\0'.
Accordingly,
If column is defined as varchar2 (1) then empty string will be treated as NULL in Oracle. However, if you define column as char (1), empty string '' becomes ' ' (since char type is a blank padded string). so... it is not an empty string, huh?