diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cddf6a2ce9..c9c93d93ff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Oct 25 13:59:53 2007 David Flanagan <davidflanagan@ruby-lang.org>
+	* parse.y (parser_tokspace): increment tokidx
+	  fixes test failure at [test/ruby/test_stringchar.rb:72]
+	
 Thu Oct 25 09:49:49 2007  akira yamada  <akira@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/uri.rb, lib/uri/ldaps.rb: added LDAPS
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 3182ceee0e..8803ddff87 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -4917,13 +4917,13 @@ parser_newtok(struct parser_params *parser)
 static char *
 parser_tokspace(struct parser_params *parser, int n)
 {
-    int idx = tokidx + n;
+    tokidx += n;
 
-    if (idx >= toksiz) {
-	do {toksiz *= 2;} while (toksiz < idx);
+    if (tokidx >= toksiz) {
+	do {toksiz *= 2;} while (toksiz < tokidx);
 	REALLOC_N(tokenbuf, char, toksiz);
     }
-    return &tokenbuf[tokidx];
+    return &tokenbuf[tokidx-n];
 }
 
 static void