diff --git a/app/Jobs/NodelistImport.php b/app/Jobs/NodelistImport.php
index 5c6510d..0197ce0 100644
--- a/app/Jobs/NodelistImport.php
+++ b/app/Jobs/NodelistImport.php
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class NodelistImport implements ShouldQueue
 			$tocrc .= $line."\r\n";
 
 			// Lines beginning with a semicolon(;) are comments
-			if (preg_match('/^;/',$line) OR ($line == chr(0x1a)))
+			if ((! $line) OR preg_match('/^;/',$line) OR ($line == chr(0x1a)))
 				continue;
 
 			// Remove any embedded CR and BOM