diff --git a/noson/src/private/tokenizer.h b/noson/src/private/tokenizer.h
index 053c18c..548aac9 100644
--- a/noson/src/private/tokenizer.h
+++ b/noson/src/private/tokenizer.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ inline void __tokenize(const std::string& str, const char *delimiters, std::vect
     }
     while (trimnull && str.find_first_of(delimiters, pb) == pb);
   }
-  if (!trimnull || pa < (str.size() - 1))
+  if (!trimnull || pa < str.size())
     tokens.push_back(str.substr(pa));
 }