friendlier error on malformed par files

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/solenv/bin/linkoo b/solenv/bin/linkoo
index 37a5f1a7b6c8..7c96b6a01b3b 100755
--- a/solenv/bin/linkoo
+++ b/solenv/bin/linkoo
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ use strict;
 # <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html>
 # for a copy of the LGPLv3 License.
 #
+# This file substantially, if not wholely written by volunteers, not Oracle
+#
 #*************************************************************************
 
 # ends up in program/ooenv
diff --git a/solenv/bin/modules/par2script/work.pm b/solenv/bin/modules/par2script/work.pm
index a77c69f5dfcb..c9b0bb150bce 100644
--- a/solenv/bin/modules/par2script/work.pm
+++ b/solenv/bin/modules/par2script/work.pm
@@ -169,7 +169,10 @@ sub collect_definitions
         $oneitem = $1;
         $gid = $2;
     } else {
-        par2script::exiter::exit_program("ERROR: malformed par file, expecting <token> <gid> but saw '$line'", "test_par_syntax");
+        chomp ($line);
+        my $invalid = $line;
+        $invalid =~ s/[\s\w]*//g;
+        par2script::exiter::exit_program("ERROR: malformed par file, invalid character '$invalid', expecting <token> <gid> but saw '$line'", "test_par_syntax");
     }
 #   print STDERR "line '$line' -> '$oneitem' '$gid'\n";