From fee7d4ce01c4f90a7cadc1b3aa6fc6858b1eab2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthieu Muffato <muffato@ebi.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:43:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix: allow empty lines in the Stockholm file

---
 src/align.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/align.c b/src/align.c
index e722b20..ef72401 100644
--- a/src/align.c
+++ b/src/align.c
@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ struct Alignment *read_Stockholm_Alignment( FILE *handle ) {
       
       if (line[0] == comment)
 	continue;
+      if (line[0] == '\n')
+	continue;
       else if (strncmp(line, terminator, 2) == 0) {
 	break;
       }