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

Assuming the * marks and end of line comment, this loop will keep anything needed on the line before it.

    input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(finaName)));
    String line = null;
    char[] lineChars;
    while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
        lineChars = line.toCharArray();
        line = "";
        for(char c: lineChars){
            if(c == '*')break;
            line.concat(Character.toString(c));
        }
        if(!line.equals(""))
        String[] words = line.split(" ");           
    }