Does setting a variant acting as an array equal to "" accomplish same as "Erase" variant?

The title more or less speaks for itself. I'm wondering if setting a variable that contains an array equal to "" is actually better than using the erase statement because it will also remove all dimensions from the array as well.

Setting a variable to null string and erasing an array are not the same. When you erase an array, it wipes out the values(Elements) on the array.