diff --git a/ZString.cpp b/ZString.cpp
index b313f23..7ad4d11 100644
--- a/ZString.cpp
+++ b/ZString.cpp
@@ -311,6 +311,19 @@ namespace coreutils {
       return len;
    }
 
+   bool ZString::lineIsWhitespace() {
+      char *end = data + length;
+      char *temp = cursor;
+      while(temp < end) {
+	 if(*temp == '\n')
+	   return true;
+	 if((*temp != ' ') && (*temp != '\t'))
+	   return false;
+	 ++temp;
+      }
+      return true;
+   }
+      
    ZString ZString::goeol() {
       bool set = false;
       char *temp = cursor;
diff --git a/ZString.h b/ZString.h
index e9fd32f..b3c56a5 100644
--- a/ZString.h
+++ b/ZString.h
@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ namespace coreutils {
       ///
       
       int skipWhitespace();
+
+      ///
+      ///
+      ///
+
+      bool lineIsWhitespace();
       
       ///
       ///
diff --git a/testing/mstring_test b/testing/mstring_test
index c00ce26..7c926b8 100755
Binary files a/testing/mstring_test and b/testing/mstring_test differ
diff --git a/testing/zstring_test b/testing/zstring_test
index cf4878d..57912b8 100755
Binary files a/testing/zstring_test and b/testing/zstring_test differ
diff --git a/testing/zstring_test.cpp b/testing/zstring_test.cpp
index 7d15c8e..6d329a5 100644
--- a/testing/zstring_test.cpp
+++ b/testing/zstring_test.cpp
@@ -63,5 +63,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    coreutils::ZString test5 = "this is a test of the Exclude tokenization without\n a line end.";
    coreutils::ZString test6 = test5.getTokenExclude("\n");
    std::cout << test6 << std::endl;
+
+   coreutils::ZString test7 = "this is a line\n       \nthis is another line\n     ";
+   std::cout << test7.lineIsWhitespace() << test7.goeol() << std::endl;
+   std::cout << test7.lineIsWhitespace() << test7.goeol() << std::endl;
+   std::cout << test7.lineIsWhitespace() << test7.goeol() << std::endl;
+   std::cout << test7.lineIsWhitespace() << test7.goeol() << std::endl;
+   
    
 }