diff --git a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/StringArrayReaderTest.java b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/StringArrayReaderTest.java
index 59612ebe5..90bfd0ace 100644
--- a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/StringArrayReaderTest.java
+++ b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/StringArrayReaderTest.java
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ public class StringArrayReaderTest
 
     public void testLineBreakSingleChar()
     {
-        final StringArrayReader o = new StringArrayReader(new String[] {"a", "bc"});
+        final StringArrayReader o =
+            new StringArrayReader(new String[] {"a", "bc"});
         try {
             int a = o.read();
             assertEquals('a', a);
@@ -45,4 +46,28 @@ public class StringArrayReaderTest
         catch (IOException ex) {
         }
     }
+
+    public void testLineBreakCharArray()
+    {
+        final StringArrayReader o =
+            new StringArrayReader(new String[] {"a", "bc"});
+        try {
+            char[] a = new char[1];
+            int count = o.read(a, 0, 1);
+            assertEquals(1, count);
+            assertEquals('a', a[0]);
+            int nl1 = o.read();
+            assertEquals('\n', nl1);
+            int b = o.read();
+            assertEquals('b', b);
+            int c = o.read();
+            assertEquals('c', c);
+            int nl2 = o.read();
+            assertEquals('\n', nl2);
+            int eof = o.read();
+            assertEquals(-1, eof);
+        }
+        catch (IOException ex) {
+        }
+    }
 }