diff --git a/src/input/readers/Ascii.cc b/src/input/readers/Ascii.cc
index e9cba27205..173ce418ca 100644
--- a/src/input/readers/Ascii.cc
+++ b/src/input/readers/Ascii.cc
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ bool Ascii::DoUpdate()
 			// array structure.
 
 			for ( int i = 0; i < fpos; i++ )
-				delete fields[fpos];
+				delete fields[i];
 
 			delete [] fields;
 			continue;
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.invalidtext/.stderrwithoutfirstline b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.invalidtext/.stderrwithoutfirstline
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d8ba5e267
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.invalidtext/.stderrwithoutfirstline
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+error: ../input.log/Input::READER_ASCII: String 'l' contained no parseable number
+error: ../input.log/Input::READER_ASCII: Could not convert line '	l' to Val. Ignoring line.
+received termination signal
+>>>
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.invalidtext/out b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.invalidtext/out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4950b6f590
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.invalidtext/out
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+[] = [c=5]
+}
diff --git a/testing/btest/scripts/base/frameworks/input/invalidtext.bro b/testing/btest/scripts/base/frameworks/input/invalidtext.bro
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..75efb1247d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/scripts/base/frameworks/input/invalidtext.bro
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# (uses listen.bro just to ensure input sources are more reliably fully-read).
+# @TEST-SERIALIZE: comm
+#
+# @TEST-EXEC: btest-bg-run bro bro -b %INPUT
+# @TEST-EXEC: btest-bg-wait -k 5
+# @TEST-EXEC: btest-diff out
+# @TEST-EXEC: sed 1d .stderr > .stderrwithoutfirstline
+# @TEST-EXEC: TEST_DIFF_CANONIFIER=$SCRIPTS/diff-remove-abspath btest-diff .stderrwithoutfirstline
+
+@TEST-START-FILE input.log
+#separator \x09
+#fields	i	c
+#types	int	count
+	l
+	5
+@TEST-END-FILE
+
+@load frameworks/communication/listen
+
+global outfile: file;
+
+module A;
+
+type Idx: record {
+	i: string;
+};
+
+type Val: record {
+	c: count;
+};
+
+global servers: table[string] of Val = table();
+
+event bro_init()
+	{
+	outfile = open("../out");
+	# first read in the old stuff into the table...
+	Input::add_table([$source="../input.log", $name="ssh", $idx=Idx, $val=Val, $destination=servers]);
+	Input::remove("ssh");
+	}
+
+event Input::end_of_data(name: string, source:string)
+	{
+	print outfile, servers;
+	terminate();
+	}