diff --git a/src/utils/lineFileUtilities/lineFileUtilities.h b/src/utils/lineFileUtilities/lineFileUtilities.h
index 3e1b833a8280f1669c4b1a8c5ad84ef147a1f701..566758cbf7f31d5824766bd315ee7a8fbcc113f3 100644
--- a/src/utils/lineFileUtilities/lineFileUtilities.h
+++ b/src/utils/lineFileUtilities/lineFileUtilities.h
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ void Tokenize(const string &str, vector<int> &elems, char delimiter = '\t')
 inline
 void TokenizeColumns(const string &str, vector<int> &elems) 
 {
-
-    // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236129/how-to-split-a-string-in-c/236803#236803
-    // NOTE: this approach intentionally allows consecutive delimiters
     vector<string> col_sets;
     Tokenize(str, col_sets, ',');