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Empty()

Empty is an AMPscript function in the utility category. True for null or empty string.

Syntax

Empty(value)

Example

%%=Empty("")=%% / %%=Empty(FirstName)=%%
Rendered output
True / False

Output produced by AmpSend's AMPscript engine (validated against Salesforce's own test corpus) - not a hand-written result.

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Official Salesforce documentation

Empty in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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