reading a string from an txt file and storing it in an array

public String[] readNames(String filename)
{
    String[] names = new String[5];
    String currentLine = "", line = "";
    int index = 0;
	try
	{
            //make a new scanner object that will read from the file
            Scanner in = new Scanner(new File(filename));
    
            //loop as long as the scanner still has contents (use the hasNext method)
            while(in.hasNext())
            {
		//Read the line from file and store it in line variable
		line = in.nextLine();
		
		//Check whether line contains name in start
		if ( line.startsWith("name"))
                {
		
		//Extract string after word "name : " and store it in names array
			names[index] = line.substring(7);
			index++;
		}
            }
	}
	catch(IOException ex)
        {
		ex.printStackTrace();
        }
	
    return names;
}