diff --git a/test/test_cql_parser.rb b/test/test_cql_parser.rb
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/test/test_cql_parser.rb
+++ b/test/test_cql_parser.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class TestCqlParser < Test::Unit::TestCase
     lines = IO.readlines( File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/sample_queries.txt' )

     lines.each do |line|

       next if /^\s*#/ =~ line

+      next if /^(\s|\n)*$/ =~ line

       begin

       tree = parser.parse( line )

       puts "in=#{line} out=#{tree.to_cql}" if tree
skip newlines in file of sample CQL. Still can't parse all of em though.