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

input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(finaName)));
String line = null;
while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
  if(line.trim().indexOf('*') == 0)
    continue;
  String[] words = line.split(" "); 
    .... 
}