display if file size equals X

or don't show at all

[idiotgirl]

I have a drop list that displays different databases I can open for editing.

What I'd like to do - is if the database file is empty (data file exists but no data entries) show some default message like

<option>empty</option>

Can I do something like file size or content length or ?? to determine that there are no entries to spawn the "empty" message? Doesn't every file by nature have a default minimum file size?

[Key_Master]

Here's one way of doing it:

$file_size = (stat("/path_to/file_name.dat"))[7];

if ($file_size < 1) {
print "<option>empty</option>\n";
}

[idiotgirl]

key_master - thanks.