webweaving: "I am just having trouble following what you have sent in."

Please work on this some more. I cannot pass you as is. I am just
having trouble following what you have sent in.

import java.io.*;// import for using BufferedReader, BufferedWriter

public class Palindrome
{
  public static void main( String args[] ) throws IOException
  {
       try
       {
       BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("pals.txt"));
       BufferedWriter outputStream = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("palsout.txt"));// using BufferedWriter instead of PrintWriter
       String line;
       String lineCopy;
       line = inputStream.readLine();// starts reading file by the line
       while( line != null )
       {
               // strip punctuation, spaces, and special characters, then convert to lower case
            String stripArray[] = { "\"", "'", ".", " ", ",", ";", ":", "!", "@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "\\", "(", ")", "_", "-", "+", "=", "?", "[", "]", "{", "}", "<", ">", "/" };
            lineCopy = line;
            for(String charReplace:stripArray)// remove each element in stripArray from lineCopy
            {
                 lineCopy = lineCopy.replace( charReplace,"" );
            }
            lineCopy = lineCopy.toLowerCase();
            StringBuilder copyString = new StringBuilder(lineCopy);
            copyString.reverse();// reverse the character order in copyString
  
            if( lineCopy.equals(copyString.toString()) )// it's a palindrome
            {
                 System.out.print( line + " Is a palindrome.\n" );
                 outputStream.write( line + " Is a palindrome." );
                 outputStream.newLine();
            }
            else// it's not a palindrome
            {
                 System.out.print( line + " Is not a palindrome.\n" );
                 outputStream.write( line + " Is not a palindrome." );
                 outputStream.newLine();
            }
            line = inputStream.readLine();// read the next line
       }
       inputStream.close();
       outputStream.close();
  }
  catch( java.io.FileNotFoundException e )
  {
       System.out.print("The file \"pals.txt\" must be located in the same directory as this application.");
  }

 }

}