diff --git a/lib/j2119/readlines.js b/lib/j2119/readlines.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/lib/j2119/readlines.js
+++ b/lib/j2119/readlines.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ function * readlines (source) {
   const reader = new LineReader(source)
   let line
   while ((line = reader.next())) {
-    yield line.toString('utf-8')
+    yield line.toString('utf-8').trim()
   }
 } // readlines
fix: Trim extraneous trailing whitespace. I'm looking at you Windows.