diff --git a/clib/jlexer.c b/clib/jlexer.c
index 3a89a36..205f162 100644
--- a/clib/jlexer.c
+++ b/clib/jlexer.c
@@ -174,9 +174,13 @@ int jlexer_gettoken(jlexer_t * lexer, char* token) {
                 switch (type) {
                     case JLEXTYPE_EOF:
                     case JLEXTYPE_WORDL:{
-                        token[lexer->tokpos++] = '\0';
-                        lexer->context = JLEXCONT_UNDEF;
-                        return JLEXTOK_WORD;
+                        if (lexer->tokpos > 0 && token[lexer->tokpos - 1] == '\\') {
+                            lexer->tokpos--;
+                        } else {
+                            token[lexer->tokpos++] = '\0';
+                            lexer->context = JLEXCONT_UNDEF;
+                            return JLEXTOK_WORD;
+                        }
                     }
                 }
                 lexer->context = newcontext;
@@ -198,7 +202,6 @@ int jlexer_gettoken(jlexer_t * lexer, char* token) {
                             if (token[i] == 'E' || token[i] == 'e' || token[i] == '.') {
                                 return JLEXTOK_FLOAT;
                             }
-
                         }
                         return JLEXTOK_INTEG;
                 }
diff --git a/clib/jparser.c b/clib/jparser.c
index 4287f7f..3807a13 100644
--- a/clib/jparser.c
+++ b/clib/jparser.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ int jparser_parse_array(jparser_t * parser, char* arrname) {
 
     int pos = 0;
 
+
     while ((type = jlexer_gettoken(lex, token)) != JLEXTOK_END) {
         log_debug("pos %d tok 0x%02x: %s\n", pos, type, token);
 
diff --git a/clib/test.json b/clib/test.json
index 2af663e..6601441 100644
--- a/clib/test.json
+++ b/clib/test.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"id":-123, "name": "qwerty", "size": -12345E3, "exists": true, "intarr": [ 11E1, 12, 13 ]}
+{"id":-123, "name": "qwerty", "size": -12345E3, "exists": true, "intarr": [ 11E1, 12, 13 ], "a\"b.c": 567.123 }