diff --git a/packages/comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.ts b/packages/comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.ts
index c0a0bcbe68..48406ed028 100644
--- a/packages/comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.ts
+++ b/packages/comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.ts
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ export class EclccErrors extends Errors {
         super(checked);
         if (stdErr && stdErr.length) {
             for (const errLine of stdErr.split(os.EOL)) {
-                let match = /([a-z,A-Z]:\\(?:[-\w\.\d]+\\)*(?:[-\w\.\d]+)?|(?:\/[\w\.\-]+)+)\((\d*),(\d*)\): ?(error|warning|info) C(\d*): ?(.*)/.exec(errLine);
+                let match = /([a-zA-Z]:\\(?:[- \w\.\d]+\\)*(?:[- \w\.\d]+)?|(?:\/[\w\.\-]+)+)\((\d*),(\d*)\) ?: ?(error|warning|info) C(\d*) ?: ?(.*)/.exec(errLine);
                 if (match) {
                     const [, filePath, row, _col, severity, code, _msg] = match;
                     const line: number = +row;
diff --git a/tests/test-comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.spec.ts b/tests/test-comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.spec.ts
index 6443338125..4cc2808aa9 100644
--- a/tests/test-comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/test-comms/src/clienttools/eclcc.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { expect } from "chai";
 
-import { locateClientTools, Version, Workunit } from "@hpcc-js/comms";
+import { EclccErrors, locateClientTools, Version, Workunit } from "@hpcc-js/comms";
 import { isBrowser } from "@hpcc-js/util";
 import { ESP_URL, isTravis } from "../testLib";
 
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ function logVersion(build: string): Promise<void> {
     });
 }
 
+function hasError(errStr: string): boolean {
+    const err = new EclccErrors(errStr, []);
+    return err.hasError();
+}
+
 describe("eclcc", function () {
     this.timeout(30000);
     if (!isBrowser) {
@@ -81,6 +86,12 @@ describe("eclcc", function () {
                     logVersion("comms_5.0.0")
                 ]);
             });
+
+            it("Syntax Error", function () {
+                expect(hasError(`c:\\Users\\gordon\\Downloads\\VS\\SomeFolder\\VS\\BWR\\BWR_welcome.ecl(1,7): error C3002: syntax error near "'Welcome'" : expected ANY, ASCII, ASSERT, BIG_ENDIAN, CONST, DATASET, DICTIONARY, EBCDIC, GROUPED, IF, LITTLE_ENDIAN, NOCONST, OPT, OUT, PACKED, PATTERN, RECORD, ROW, RULE, SET, type-name, TOKEN, TYPEOF, UNSIGNED, VIRTUAL, <?>, <??>, dataset, identifier, identifier, type name, type name, type name, type name, datarow, function-name, function-name, action, pattern, event, transform-name, '^', '$'`)).to.be.true;
+                expect(hasError(`c:\\Users\\gordon\\Down-loads\\VS\\Some Folder\\VS\\BWR\\BWR_welcome.ecl(1,7): error C3002: syntax error near "'Welcome'" : expected ANY, ASCII, ASSERT, BIG_ENDIAN, CONST, DATASET, DICTIONARY, EBCDIC, GROUPED, IF, LITTLE_ENDIAN, NOCONST, OPT, OUT, PACKED, PATTERN, RECORD, ROW, RULE, SET, type-name, TOKEN, TYPEOF, UNSIGNED, VIRTUAL, <?>, <??>, dataset, identifier, identifier, type name, type name, type name, type name, datarow, function-name, function-name, action, pattern, event, transform-name, '^', '$'`)).to.be.true;
+                expect(hasError("c:\\temp\\test.ecl(7,13) : error C007 : Hello and Welcome")).to.be.true;
+            });
         }
     }
 });