boolean done = false;
while (!done){
  //......... all the lines of code to do ....
  nameOfAuthor = reader.readString("Enter name of author: ");
  /* last line in while loop */
  done = nameOfAuthor.length() == 0;
}

import java.io.*;
 
/**
A TVScheduleReader is an object that provides its user 
with an interface for reading TVSchedule data from a 
text file. The reader reads schedule objects from 
a file sequentially, starting from the beginning. 

In the text files read by the reader, each "program broadcasting unit" (e.g. a day) is represented by 
a number of lines. The first two lines contain the name 
and broadcasting time of the program schedule, and the following lines contain the titles and durations of the individual TV programs, 
in broadcasting order. 
There may be an arbitrary number of programs in each broadcasting unit; the end of a unit is marked 
in the file by a line consisting of three hyphenation marks. 
*/
 
 
  public class TVScheduleFileReader
  extends Object {
 
    static String SEPARATOR_LINE;
    private Reader characterStream;
    private BufferedReader bufferedStream; 
    private String filePath; 
    private TVSchedule reader;
 
 
 
 
/**---------------------------------------------------------
Creates a new reader to read the given file. 
The reader starts at the beginning of the file.
Parameters:
filePath - the path to the file to be read
Throws:
IOException - if problems arose when handling the file
*/
 
  public TVScheduleReader(String filepath)
  throws IOException {
 
    if(filepath.equals(null)) {
    throw new IOException("wrong");
    }
 
    Reader characterStream = new FileReader(filepath);
    BufferedReader bufferedStream = new
    BufferedReader(characterStream); 
 
    this.SEPARATOR_LINE = "---";
    this.filepath = filepath;
  }
 
 
 
 
 
/**---------------------------------------------
Reads the next TV schedule from the file.
Returns:
the next TV schedule from the file or null, 
if there is no more unread data in the file
Throws:
InvalidScheduleData - if there is an error in the formatting of the file (e.g. the file ends abnormally 
or the duration of a program is not a positive integer).
IOException - if problems arose when handling the file
*/
  
  public TVSchedule read()
  throws InvalidScheduleData, IOException {
 
    String lineRead = bufferedStream.readLine();
    while (lineRead != null) {
      System.out.print(lineRead);
      lineRead = bufferedStream.readLine();
    }
    // return something
  }
 
 
 
 
/**------------------------------------------------------- 
Returns the reader to the beginning of the file. That is, the next call of the method read will return the first schedule in the file.
Throws:
IOException - if problems arose when handling the file
*/
  public void reset() throws IOException {
    String beginning = bufferedStream.readLine();
  }
 
 
 
 
 
 
/**--------------------------------------------------------
Tells if the reader has already read all the data in the file.
Returns:
a boolean value indicating if all the data has been read (i.e. the rest of the file contains empty lines at most)
Throws:
IOException - if problems arose when handling the file
*/
 
  public boolean isFinished() throws IOException {
  }
 
 
 
 
 
/** ----------------------------------------------------
Closes the input stream used by the reader.
Throws:
IOException - if problems arose when handling the file */
 
  public void close() throws IOException { 
    characterStream.close();
 
  } 
 
 
}