diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index e480ca501506d04d6928c360bb367c96bd42216d..c0e7f2cefcf80f6d4430773c11d31379879552b2 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 PicaReader provides classes for reading Pica+ records encoded in PicaXML and PicaPlain.
 
-PicaReader is copyright (c) 2012-2016 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and released under the
+PicaReader is copyright (c) 2012-2017 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and released under the
 terms of the GNU General Public License v3.
 
 * Installation
diff --git a/src/HAB/Pica/Parser/PicaPlainParser.php b/src/HAB/Pica/Parser/PicaPlainParser.php
index afd52ae00a556eb07d75ede527655caf7917406b..87c8b92e7d1f597c17b556d732115b7d1e7af1aa 100644
--- a/src/HAB/Pica/Parser/PicaPlainParser.php
+++ b/src/HAB/Pica/Parser/PicaPlainParser.php
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  *
  * @package   PicaReader
  * @author    David Maus <maus@hab.de>
- * @copyright Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
+ * @copyright Copyright (c) 2012 - 2017 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
  * @license   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU General Public License v3
  */
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class PicaPlainParser implements PicaPlainParserInterface
     {
         $field = array('subfields' => array());
         $match = array();
-        if (preg_match('#^([012][0-9]{2}[A-Z@])(/([0-9]{2}))? (\$.*)$#Du', $line, $match)) {
+        if (preg_match('#^([012][0-9]{2}[A-Z@])(/([0-9]{2}))?\s+(\$.*)$#Du', $line, $match)) {
             $field = array('tag' => $match[1],
                            'occurrence' => $match[3] ?: null,
                            'subfields' => $this->parseSubfields($match[4]));;
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/single_record.pp b/tests/fixtures/single_record.pp
index f4866427e2d6275b9c069e5a1ca7d72822e59c21..7851ab6653a06f30fdc07596d7bdf58837c50ee4 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/single_record.pp
+++ b/tests/fixtures/single_record.pp
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 001U $0utf8
 001X $00
 002@ $0Aau
-003@ $0024836885
+003@  $0024836885
 003O $aOCoLC$019095997$v2009-06-15
 004A $03787307699$fDM 26.-
 004A $03787307702$fDM 68.-