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An electrostatic field line is continuous curve, i.e. a field line cannot have sudden breaks. Why not ?

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An electrostatic field line cannot be a discontinuous curve, i.e. it cannot have breaks. If it has break points. But indicate absence of electric field at the break points. But the electric field vanishes only at infinity.
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