diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index d2b7729..ce87b3c 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ impl fmt::Display for Error {
 
             if let Some(code) = &self.code {
                 let mut lines = code.lines();
-                let linect = match lines.nth(*line) {
+                let linect = match lines.nth(*line - 1) {
                     Some(l) => l,
                     None => return Ok(()), // there should probably be an error if the line number is somehow out of range
                 };
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index b84ce40..b5fe136 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ impl<R: BufRead> CodeIter<R> {
             reader,
             code: String::new(),
             pos: 0,
-            line: 0,
+            line: 1,
             column: 0,
         }
     }
@@ -319,4 +319,4 @@ impl<R: BufRead> Runtime<R> {
             ._values(parser.trees(tokenizer.peekable()))
                 .map(|r| r.map_err(|e| e.code(self.code()).file(self.filename.clone())))
     }
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/parser.rs b/src/parser.rs
index 4e05902..3b39489 100644
--- a/src/parser.rs
+++ b/src/parser.rs
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ impl Parser {
         items.into_iter().fold(self, |acc, (k, v)| acc.add_global(k, v))
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn add_local(mut self, k: String, v: Type) -> Self {
+    pub(crate) fn _add_local(mut self, k: String, v: Type) -> Self {
         self.locals.insert(k, v);
         self
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn add_locals<Items: Iterator<Item = (String, Type)>>(self, items: Items) -> Self {
-        items.fold(self, |acc, (key, value)| acc.add_local(key, value))
+    pub(crate) fn _add_locals<Items: Iterator<Item = (String, Type)>>(self, items: Items) -> Self {
+        items.fold(self, |acc, (key, value)| acc._add_local(key, value))
     }
 
     fn add_local_mut(&mut self, k: String, v: Type) -> &mut Self {
diff --git a/src/tokenizer.rs b/src/tokenizer.rs
index ad730fb..8d4d446 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer.rs
@@ -240,10 +240,15 @@ impl<R: BufRead> Tokenizer<R> {
 
             while let Some(c) = self.next_char() {
                 match c {
-                    '"' => break,
+                    '"' => {
+                        let (line, col) = self.getpos();
+
+                        return Ok(Some(Token::new(TokenType::Constant(
+                            Value::String(token.clone())), token, line, col)));
+                    }
                     '\n' => return Err(
                         Error::new("Unclosed string literal".into())
-                            .location(line, col..self.getpos().1)
+                            .location(line, col..col+token.len()+1)
                             .note("newlines are not allowed in string literals (try \\n)".into())),
                     '\\' => match self.next_char() {
                         Some('\\') => token.push('\\'),
@@ -254,17 +259,16 @@ impl<R: BufRead> Tokenizer<R> {
                         Some(c) => token.push(c),
                         None => return Err(
                             Error::new("Unclosed string literal".into())
-                                .location(line, col..self.getpos().1)
+                                .location(line, col..token.len()+1)
                                 .note("end of file found before \"".into())),
                     }
                     _ => token.push(c),
-                }
+                };
             }
 
-            let (line, col) = self.getpos();
-
-            Ok(Some(Token::new(TokenType::Constant(
-                Value::String(token.clone())), token, line, col)))
+            Err(Error::new("Unclosed string literal".into())
+                .location(line, col..self.getpos().1+1)
+                .note("end of file found before \"".into()))
         } else if operators.keys().any(|x| x.starts_with(c)) {
             let mut token = String::from(c);
 
@@ -349,9 +353,8 @@ impl<R: BufRead> Tokenizer<R> {
         } else {
             let (line, col) = self.getpos();
 
-            return Err(
-                Error::new(format!("an unidentified character {c} was found"))
-                    .location(line, col - 1..col));
+            Err(Error::new(format!("an unidentified character {c} was found"))
+                    .location(line, col..col+1))
         }
     }
 }