Most efficient way to check if a file is empty in Java on Windows

Question

I am trying to check if a log file is empty (meaning no errors) or not, in Java, on Windows. I have tried using 2 methods so far.

Method 1 (Failure)

Answer 1

String line = br.readLine();
String[] splitted = line.split("anySplitCharacter");
if(splitted.length == 0)
    //file is empty
else
    //file is not empty

I had the same problem with my text file. Although it was empty, the value being returned by the readLine method was not null. Therefore, I tried to assign its value to the String array which I was using to access the splitted attributes of my data. It did work for me. Try this out and tell me if it works for u as well.