diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/c-c++-common/cpp/pr96323.c b/gcc/testsuite/c-c++-common/cpp/pr96323.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7a8edff27ccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/c-c++-common/cpp/pr96323.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/* PR preprocessor/96323 */
+/* { dg-do preprocess } */
+/* { dg-options "-std=gnu99 -Wno-c++-compat -trigraphs" { target c } } */
+/* { dg-options "-std=c++0x" { target c++ } } */
+/* { dg-error "invalid new-line in raw string delimiter" "" { target *-*-* } .+2 } */
+/* { dg-warning "missing terminating . character" "" { target *-*-* } .+2 } */
+const char tu[] = R"a";
+const char tua[] = "(R)a";
diff --git a/libcpp/lex.c b/libcpp/lex.c
index 5d94882abe8a..9aec9e0bd04e 100644
--- a/libcpp/lex.c
+++ b/libcpp/lex.c
@@ -1885,7 +1885,8 @@ lex_raw_string (cpp_reader *pfile, cpp_token *token, const uchar *base)
 		 the best failure mode.  */
 	      prefix_len = 0;
 	    }
-	  continue;
+	  if (c != '\n')
+	    continue;
 	}
 
       if (phase != PHASE_NONE)