How to close an empty file

First of all I apologise for asking a simple question.
Here's the problem
I am having trouble closing a file in my program.

Sample code
open "c:\file.txt" for input as #1
line input #1, Data
close #1

This works if the file contains data

If the file is empty though it is skipping the close statement causing the program to fallover the next time I open a file as #1.

Can anyone help this idot.

re: How to close an empty file

Since this post I have put a errorhandler in as follows

errorhandler:
select case err.number
case 55
close #1
end select
resume

This keeps the program running but doesn't solve my basic programming error.