The '''empty string''' is a string containing no characters. Because of Tcl's [copy-on-write] implementation of values, there is precisely one empty string. In a Tcl script, there are exactly three notations for the empty string: `{}`, `""`, and `[[some_command_that_returns_the_empty_string]]`. [AMG]: Actually, you can obtain empty string by typing `[[]]`. <> Tcl