diff --git a/src/main/java/technology/sola/json/tokenizer/SolaJsonTokenizer.java b/src/main/java/technology/sola/json/tokenizer/SolaJsonTokenizer.java
index 29eacac..79134ad 100644
--- a/src/main/java/technology/sola/json/tokenizer/SolaJsonTokenizer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/technology/sola/json/tokenizer/SolaJsonTokenizer.java
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ public class SolaJsonTokenizer {
   public SolaJsonTokenizer(String text) {
     characters = text.toCharArray();
     currentChar = characters[textIndex];
+
+    while (currentChar != null && Character.isWhitespace(currentChar)) {
+      advance();
+    }
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/test/java/technology/sola/json/parser/SolaJsonParserTest.java b/src/test/java/technology/sola/json/parser/SolaJsonParserTest.java
index 6d2bcf8..23c33bf 100644
--- a/src/test/java/technology/sola/json/parser/SolaJsonParserTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/technology/sola/json/parser/SolaJsonParserTest.java
@@ -14,12 +14,10 @@
 class SolaJsonParserTest {
   @Test
   void whenInvalidRoot_shouldThrowException() {
-    String input = """
-      "test"
-      """;
+    String input = " \"test\" ";
 
     InvalidSyntaxException invalidSyntaxException = assertThrows(InvalidSyntaxException.class, () -> createTest(input));
-    assertEquals(0, invalidSyntaxException.getStartIndex());
+    assertEquals(1, invalidSyntaxException.getStartIndex());
     assertEquals(TokenType.STRING, invalidSyntaxException.getActual());
     var expectedList = List.of(invalidSyntaxException.getExpected());
     assertTrue(expectedList.contains(TokenType.L_BRACKET));