diff --git a/src/tokens.rs b/src/tokens.rs
index 26c8277..ec7bb08 100644
--- a/src/tokens.rs
+++ b/src/tokens.rs
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ impl<'a> Tokenizer<'a> {
     }
 
     pub fn substr_offset(&self, s: &'a str) -> usize {
-        assert!(s.len() < self.input.len());
+        assert!(s.len() <= self.input.len());
         let a = self.input.as_ptr() as usize;
         let b = s.as_ptr() as usize;
         assert!(a <= b);
diff --git a/tests/invalid-misc.rs b/tests/invalid-misc.rs
index e8360fd..53f625e 100644
--- a/tests/invalid-misc.rs
+++ b/tests/invalid-misc.rs
@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ fn bad() {
     bad("a = 01");
     bad("a = 1__1");
     bad("a = 1_");
+    bad("''");
 }