Question

In my program users frequently search a .txt file for certain information. To know if the right bit of data has been found I first check each line to see if it starts with a special character signalling the start of a group of data, something like this:

//one character has so far been read
if(character == '#'){
    //continue to examine data
}else{
    //skip the rest of the line
}

The problem I’m having is how to actually “skip the rest of the line”, if the line did not start with my special character of choice.

As per complaints about insufficient information: I am indeed using a while loop to read each line

Answer 1

You can just do the action inside the if:

   BufferedReader csvFile = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

   while ((csvLine = csvFile.readLine()) != null) {
        if (csvLine.charAt(0) == '#') {
             // do # data action here
        }
   }