Parsing txt file in java and returning a boolean

Im trying to parse a txt file thats set up like this

HBR - [false, true, false, true]
CKR - [false, false, false, true]
GFT - [true, true, false, true]

I want to loop through each line and return a boolean of true or false.
This boolean is whether or not the 3 letter identifier exists in said txt file.
This is what I got so far, Ive been lost for days

public boolean bDoesLineExist() throws IOException {
    String file = "C:\\Parse\\alarmmasksettings.txt";
    FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fileInputStream, "UTF-8"));
    try {
        while (true) {
            String line = reader.readLine();
            if (line == null) {
                break;
            }
            String[] fields = line.split("-");
            if (fields[0].equals("HBR")) {
                return true
            } else {
                return false;
            }

        }
    } finally {
        reader.close();
    }

}

can you try this

if (fields[0].startsWith("HBR")) {

instead of

 if (fields[0].equals("HBR")) {

or may be try -

 if (fields[0].trim().equals("HBR")) {

as you would have space in the tokenized string

I realize that you just want to determine if a specific identifier is contained within the data file you want to read but I should think that at some point you may want to obtain the boolean settings for that specific identifier.

You can kill two birds with one stone (so to speak) by creating a method to retrieve the the boolean settings for a specific identifier and if the identifier can't be found in file then null boolean array is returned. If however the identifier is found in file then a boolean array of the settings is returned. Perhaps a method something like this:

/**
* Returns a boolean array containing the boolean settings for the supplied 
* field name.<br>
* 
* @param settingsFor (String) The desired field name to get settings for.
* 
* @return (Boolean Array) Returns a boolean array containing the boolean 
* settings for the supplied field name. Returns null is the field name is 
* not found in file.
*/
public static boolean[] getMaskSettings(String settingsFor) {
// Boolean Array to hold a specific field's boolean settings.
boolean[] sets = null;  
// 'Try With Resourses' used to to auto-close the reader.
try (java.io.BufferedReader reader = new java.io.BufferedReader(new java.io.InputStreamReader(
new java.io.FileInputStream("alarmmasksettings.txt"), "UTF-8"))) {
String line;
// Read each file line until the End Of File (EOF)...
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
// Skip blank lines.
if (line.trim().isEmpty()) {
continue;
}
/* Split the currently read in file line into two spaecific
parts, the field Name and the boolean Settings for that
field.
*/
String[] lineParts = line.replaceAll("[\\[\\]]", "").split("\\s{0,}\\-\\s{0,}");
/* The first array element of lineParts[] should hold the field Name:
Is the field name what was supplied (not case sensitive).  */
if (lineParts[0].equalsIgnoreCase(settingsFor)) {
// Yes it is...Split the second lineParts[] array element which
// should be holding the boolean settings for the supplied field, 
// into a String Array...
String[] settingsStringArray = lineParts[1].split("\\s{0,},\\s{0,}");
// Initialize the sets[] boolean array declared at the beginning of this method.
sets = new boolean[settingsStringArray.length];
/* Iterate through the settingsStringArray[] String array
and convert and apply the string representations of "true"
or "false" settings to their actual boolean value and 
apply them to the proper index in the sets[] boolean array. */
for (int i = 0; i < settingsStringArray.length; i++) {
sets[i] = Boolean.parseBoolean(settingsStringArray[i]);
}
break;
} 
}
}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
System.err.println(ex);
}
catch (IOException ex) {
System.err.println(ex);
}
/* Since the sets[] boolean array was initially declared as null
and if the desired field name was NOT found in file then the 
sets[] arrays is never initialized and therefore is null and 
this is what will be returned. If however the desired field 
name was found in file then the sets[] array is initialized 
and filled accordingly. 
*/
return sets;
}

How you might use this method:

String fieldName = "HBR";
boolean[] settings = getMaskSettings(fieldName);
if (settings == null) {
System.out.println("The field name \"" + fieldName + "\" is not in file!");
}
else {
System.out.print("Settings for the field name (" + fieldName + ") are: --> ");
System.out.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(settings).replaceAll("[\\[\\]]", ""));
}