Thread: write lines which start without cahracter

NB: thread heading is littele bit wrong, I want to exclude lines from writing to output which start with specific character
human
donkey
monkery
I want to write human and monkey, and exclude line which starts with "d"-donkey.


Is there built in method or smthng to say to write from file to another file lines that do not start with defined charachter so i can enter that character into parameters or..?

       try {
            File input = new File("input");
            File output = new File("output");
            Scanner sc = new Scanner(input);
            PrintWriter printer = new PrintWriter(output);
            while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
                String s = sc.nextLine();
                printer.write(s);
            }
            printer.flush();
        }
        catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            System.err.println("File not found. Please scan in new file.");
        }

No, but it's a plain if statement checking the first char of the line. Check the String API doc for useful methods.