diff --git a/src/tokenize.cpp b/src/tokenize.cpp
index cd59b2621..745d41df1 100644
--- a/src/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/src/tokenize.cpp
@@ -255,6 +255,8 @@ void Tokenizer::tokenize(std::istream &code, const char FileName[])
                     ch = (char)code.get();
                     if (chPrev != '\\' && ch == '\n')
                         break;
+                    if (chPrev == '\\')
+                        line += chPrev;
                     if (chPrev == '#' && ch == '#')
                     {
                         addtoken("##", lineno, FileIndex);
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index 4d36bb93a..70031a00c 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ private:
 
         TEST_CASE(file1);
         TEST_CASE(file2);
+        TEST_CASE(file3);
 
         TEST_CASE(doublesharp);
 
@@ -840,6 +841,24 @@ private:
 
 
 
+    void file3()
+    {
+        const char code[] = "#file \"c:\\a.h\"\n"
+                            "123\n"
+                            "#endfile\n";
+
+        // tokenize..
+        Tokenizer tokenizer;
+        std::istringstream istr(code);
+        tokenizer.tokenize(istr, "a.cpp");
+
+
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("[c:\\a.h:1]", tokenizer.fileLine(tokenizer.tokens()));
+    }
+
+
+
+
     void doublesharp()
     {
         const char code[] = "TEST(var,val) var##_##val = val\n";