diff --git a/lib/node-iniparser.js b/lib/node-iniparser.js
index 93397a3..b212252 100644
--- a/lib/node-iniparser.js
+++ b/lib/node-iniparser.js
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ module.exports.parseSync = function(file){
 };
 
 function parse(data){
+    // Line continuation, if a line starts with white space "\s" it will be appended to the previous line
+    data = data.replace(/((\r\n\s+)?|(\r\s+)?|(\n\s+)?)/mg,"");  //this regex combines lines that have leading white space
+
 	var value = {};
 	var lines = data.split(/\r\n|\r|\n/);
 	var section = null;