diff --git a/ZString.cpp b/ZString.cpp
index 9585b6f..668c195 100644
--- a/ZString.cpp
+++ b/ZString.cpp
@@ -291,9 +291,16 @@ namespace coreutils {
    }
 
    ZString ZString::getTokenExclude(const char *exclude) {
+      char previous = 0;
       char *start = cursor;
-      while ((cursor <= (data + length)) && !isCharacter(*cursor, exclude))
-	++cursor;
+      do {	   
+	 while ((cursor <= (data + length)) && !isCharacter(*cursor, exclude)) {
+	    previous = *cursor;
+	    ++cursor;
+	 }
+	 ++cursor;
+      } while(previous == '\\');
+      --cursor;
       return ZString(start, cursor - start);
    }
 
diff --git a/testing/zstring_test.cpp b/testing/zstring_test.cpp
index b568634..c76b329 100644
--- a/testing/zstring_test.cpp
+++ b/testing/zstring_test.cpp
@@ -111,5 +111,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    coreutils::ZString test21("10.00000000");
    std::cout << "Trailing Zeros: " << test21.removeTrailingZeros() << std::endl;
    std::cout << "                " << test21 << std::endl;
+
+   coreutils::ZString test22("This is a \\\"quoted\\\" string.\"");
+   std::cout << "quoted string: " << test22 << std::endl;
+   std::cout << "quoted string: " << test22.getTokenExclude("\"") << std::endl;      
    
 }