Ignoring comments in a text file

Ok my problem is ignoring comment lines which start with "#"
I have tried using the startsWith() method but it still reads the line cause an error

Example of my code below

/**
* Reads <tt>Animal</tt> data from a text file and adds them to the zoo. The
* format of the data is specified in the MyZoo coursework assignment.
*
* @param animal the Animal object to be added.
*/
public void readDataFromFile() throws Exception
{

// set up an owner for the FileDialog
JFrame jframe = new JFrame();
jframe.setVisible(true);
// use a Filedialog to select a file to read from
FileDialog fDialog = new FileDialog(jframe, "Read from", FileDialog.LOAD);
fDialog.setFile("*.txt");
fDialog.setDirectory(".");
fDialog.setVisible(true);
String fname = fDialog.getFile();
jframe.dispose();

File inFile = new File(fname);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inFile));

String line = reader.readLine();
if(line !=null){System.out.println(line);}

while((line=reader.readLine())!=null)
{
if(line.trim().startsWith("#"));
{}

String[] sLine = line.trim().split("\t");

String name = sLine[1];
String species = sLine[2];

addAnimal( new Animal(name,species,this) );
}

reader.close()

}

and this is the text file content

import shipment of April 12, 2007
# tab separated data
Bird Golden Eagle Eddie
Mammal Tiger Tommy
Mammal Lion Leo
Mammal Elephant Eddie
Bird Parrot Polly
# last one next
Reptile Cobra Colin

I'm confused by your code. If you read a line that starts with a # character, you should just continue:

This should do what you want