Why when using instanceof in java to a null variable the output would be flase

Answer 1

instanceof will return true if the value/value of a variable being tested is of the type being compared to
keep in mind that you never test variable but actually value inside a variable

consider the following:

boolean a = "Coder" instanceof String;//returns true

boolean b = null instanceof String;)//returns false

Answer 2

Thank you
This helped alot