diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 77d9edc..3ed1302 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+build
 __pycache__
 .idea
 .pytest_cache
diff --git a/cadump/cadump.py b/cadump/cadump.py
index 6f0de0e..6d54b27 100644
--- a/cadump/cadump.py
+++ b/cadump/cadump.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import dateutil.parser
 import pytz
 import datetime
 import time
+import re
 
 import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger("logger")
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ def read_channels(filename):
 
     channels = []
     for line in lines:
+        line = re.sub(r'\w*#.*', "", line)
         line = line.strip()
         if line:  # if not empty line
             channels.append(line)  # remove all leading and trailing spaces
diff --git a/tests/channels.txt b/tests/channels.txt
index 7033f9e..63868d2 100644
--- a/tests/channels.txt
+++ b/tests/channels.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ S10-CPCL-VM1MGC:LOAD
 
 ONE
  TWO
-THREE
+# Comment that need to be removed
+THREE # one more comment at the end that need to be removed
diff --git a/tests/test_download_data.py b/tests/test_download_data.py
index e5e30e1..b85e1a0 100644
--- a/tests/test_download_data.py
+++ b/tests/test_download_data.py
@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ class TestDownloadData(TestCase):
     def test_read_channels(self):
         channels = cadump.read_channels("channels.txt")
         logging.info(channels)
-        self.assertEqual(len(channels), 3)
-
-
+        self.assertEqual(len(channels), 4)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':