diff --git a/src/tokenize.cpp b/src/tokenize.cpp
index 67cedc1ea..0d06ca7e3 100644
--- a/src/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/src/tokenize.cpp
@@ -2570,7 +2570,11 @@ void Tokenizer::simplifyVarDecl()
                 {
                     if (tok2->str() == "{")
                         tok2 = tok2->link();
+
                     tok2 = tok2->next();
+
+                    if (tok2->str() == ";")
+                        tok2 = NULL;
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index 1671fac8f..42bd16258 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(vardecl7);
         TEST_CASE(vardecl8);
         TEST_CASE(vardecl9);
+        TEST_CASE(vardecl10);
         TEST_CASE(vardecl_stl);
         TEST_CASE(volatile_variables);
         TEST_CASE(syntax_error);
@@ -2289,6 +2290,14 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS(res, tokenizeAndStringify(code));
     }
 
+    void vardecl10()
+    {
+        // ticket #732
+        const char code[] = "char a [ 2 ] = { '-' } ; memset ( a , '-' , sizeof ( a ) ) ;";
+
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(code, tokenizeAndStringify(code));
+    }
+
     void volatile_variables()
     {
         const char code[] = "volatile int a=0;\n"