You can use stat 'Filemane' this returns a 13 element list giving the statistics
for the file "Filename" so 
    @res = stat "file_to_stat";
    print qq($res[7]\n);

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will return the size of the file in bytes, the other elements of the list are as follows 
    dev - Device number
    ino - Inode number
    mode - File node (type and permissions)
    nlink - No of hard links
    uid - File owner
    gid - Group Id
    rdev - Device identifier
    size - size in bytes
    atime - access time
    mtime - modified time
    ctime - Inode change time
    blksize - Prefered block size
    blocks - actual number of blocks allocated

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Note: Not all fields are supported bt all OSs.
Hope this is of help

In reply to Re: checking if file is empty or not by ColtsFoot
in thread checking if file is empty or not by damian

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