Ignore a line while reading a file in java

Question

I have some code to read the lines from a file, I would like to recognize when the line starts or the fisrt character (not blank) is \'*\' and ignore it, so inside

Answer 1

Change your while loop as:

while((line = input.readLine()) != null){
   if(!line.startsWith("*")){
      String[] words = line.split(" ");
      ....
   }
}

EDIT

If "*" is not in the beginning of the line but at some position in the line, use the following

if(line.indexOf("*") == position){
   ......
}

where position can be an integer specifying the position you are interested in.