"" is actually true in C, but that's also because it represents something in memory. Consider how C encodes strings: an empty string is a _pointer_ to a 0 (or a

"" is actually true in C, but that's also because it represents something in memory. Consider how C encodes strings: an empty string is a _pointer_ to a 0 (or a '\0', if you want to think of it as a char). However, the pointer (being an address) is non-zero (since the address 0 is NULL).