diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index e662757fa..e3bd165d4 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -6544,11 +6544,17 @@ bool Tokenizer::simplifyRedundantParenthesis()
             ret = true;
         }
 
-        if (Token::Match(tok->previous(), "[(,!] ( %var% . %var% )")) {
-            // We have "( var . var )", remove the parenthesis
-            tok->deleteThis();
-            tok = tok->tokAt(2);
+        while (Token::Match(tok->previous(), ";|{|}|[|]|(|)|.|,|! ( %var% .")) {
+            Token *tok2 = tok->tokAt(2);
+            while (Token::Match(tok2, ". %var%")) {
+                tok2 = tok2->tokAt(2);
+            }
+            if (tok2 != tok->link())
+                break;
+            // We have "( var . var . ... . var )", remove the parenthesis
+            tok = tok->previous();
             tok->deleteNext();
+            tok2->deleteThis();
             ret = true;
             continue;
         }
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index b50f12740..9ac85cacc 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -4710,8 +4710,15 @@ private:
 
     // "!(abc.a)" => "!abc.a"
     void removeParentheses6() {
-        const char code[] = "(!(abc.a))";
-        ASSERT_EQUALS("( ! abc . a )", tokenizeAndStringify(code));
+        {
+            const char code[] = "(!(abc.a))";
+            ASSERT_EQUALS("( ! abc . a )", tokenizeAndStringify(code));
+        }
+        //handle more complex member selections
+        {
+            const char code[] = "(!(a.b.c.d));";
+            ASSERT_EQUALS("( ! a . b . c . d ) ;", tokenizeAndStringify(code));
+        }
     }
 
     void removeParentheses7() {