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Reference to variable is empty

Highlights instances where a nested variable in a `.env` file is defined but left empty or blank, helping developers identify potentially problematic or incomplete configurations.

This inspection is particularly useful for ensuring the correctness and completeness of environment variable files. Detecting empty nested variables helps avoid runtime issues caused by misconfigurations.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

EmptyNestedVariableInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | DotEnv

Inspection ID: EmptyNestedVariableInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection EmptyNestedVariableInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

PyCharm 2025.2, Qodana for Ruby 2025.2, RubyMine 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025