diff --git a/src/util.cc b/src/util.cc
index b54f9d5ade..9742a62e46 100644
--- a/src/util.cc
+++ b/src/util.cc
@@ -1530,6 +1530,10 @@ TEST_CASE("util tokenize_string")
 	auto svs = tokenize_string("one,two,three,four,", ',');
 	std::vector<std::string_view> expect{"one", "two", "three", "four", ""};
 	CHECK(svs == expect);
+
+	auto letters = tokenize_string("a--b--c--d", "--");
+	CHECK(*letters == vector<string>({ "a", "b", "c", "d" }));
+	delete letters;
 	}
 
 vector<string>* tokenize_string(std::string_view input, std::string_view delim,
@@ -1546,7 +1550,7 @@ vector<string>* tokenize_string(std::string_view input, std::string_view delim,
 		{
 		++found;
 		rval->emplace_back(input.substr(pos, n - pos));
-		pos = n + 1;
+		pos = n + delim.size();
 
 		if ( limit && found == limit )
 			break;