Quick Clarification on [AS]

Hey.

Just need a small clarfication on this

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**Decription:** *On the first frame consists of LoadNumVar*

loadVariablesNum(“C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Desktop/text1.txt”, 0);


 
**If Statement:**

if (text ne “”) {
gotoAndStop(“end”);
}


 
I know whats happening but what is ***(text ne "") ***?