diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 682b37a4..4083bd43 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ Benjamin Reichardt <reichard@math.uni-goettingen.de>
 
 Henning Holtschneider <hh@holtschneider.com>
  for patching 'runvdr' to check whether the driver is already loaded
+ for reporting a bug in parsing group separators in channels.conf
 
 Paulo Lopes <pmml@netvita.pt>
  for translating OSD texts to the Portugese language
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index bf197f8a..ac26edaf 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1162,3 +1162,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed a bug when a timer records over midnight of a day that had a change in
   Daylight Saving Time.
 - Added Polish language texts (thanks to Michael Rakowski).
+- Fixed a bug in parsing group separators in channels.conf (thanks to Henning
+  Holtschneider for reporting this one).
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index ca6d6f82..7104dcc2 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.c 1.95 2002/04/01 10:54:32 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.c 1.96 2002/04/01 11:54:05 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "config.h"
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ bool cChannel::Parse(const char *s)
         strn0cpy(name, s, MaxChannelName);
         name[strlen(name) - 1] = 0; // strip the '\n'
         groupSep = true;
+        number = 0;
         }
      else
         return false;