diff --git a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
index 9f548be11..1ea1a5739 100644
--- a/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkmemoryleak.cpp
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ Token *CheckMemoryLeakInFunction::getcode(const Token *tok, std::list<const Toke
                 }
             }
 
-            if (Token::Match(tok->previous(), "[;{})=|] ::| %var%")) {
+            if (Token::Match(tok->previous(), "[;{})=|+-] ::| %var%")) {
                 if (Token::Match(tok, "%varid% ?", varid))
                     tok = tok->tokAt(2);
 
diff --git a/test/testmemleak.cpp b/test/testmemleak.cpp
index 26ebae9b8..e02dee4b2 100644
--- a/test/testmemleak.cpp
+++ b/test/testmemleak.cpp
@@ -555,6 +555,7 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS(";;;dealloc;assign;;", getcode(";int res; res = close(res);", "res"));
 
         ASSERT_EQUALS(";;dealloc;", getcode("int f; e |= fclose(f);", "f"));
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(";;dealloc;", getcode("int f; e += fclose(f);", "f"));
 
         // fcloseall..
         ASSERT_EQUALS(";;alloc;;", getcode("char *s; s = malloc(10); fcloseall();", "s"));