What is the difference between String Constant and Empty String Constant

What is the difference between string constant which does not contain any value and the Empty string constant?
While testing a VI which contain a normal string constant in VI analyzer, it gives error to change string constant with the empty string constant?
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Prabhakant Patil

Readability.
Functionally, they are the same. From a coding standpoint, the Empty String Constant is unambiguous.
It is empty and will always be; good for initialization. Also, because you can not type a value into and Empty String Constant, someone would need to conciously replace it to set a 'default' value that is something other than NULL.
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