diff --git a/contrib/scripts/sip_to_pjsip/astconfigparser.py b/contrib/scripts/sip_to_pjsip/astconfigparser.py
index 46f4fb484b284ddae24410f6587c8c2a117c50a0..a6d88c7b75341aa52e635037b9c8c116e89ad52b 100644
--- a/contrib/scripts/sip_to_pjsip/astconfigparser.py
+++ b/contrib/scripts/sip_to_pjsip/astconfigparser.py
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ def remove_comment(line, is_comment):
     if match:
          # the end of where the real string is is where the comment starts
          line = line[0:(match.end()-1)]
+    elif line.startswith(";"):
+         # if the line is actually a comment just ignore it all
+         line = ""
 
     return line.replace("\\", "").strip(), False