diff --git a/src/test_utils.rs b/src/test_utils.rs
index 47fb00d5d..0ec595095 100644
--- a/src/test_utils.rs
+++ b/src/test_utils.rs
@@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ impl TestedDialects {
         only_statement
     }
 
+    /// Ensures that `sql` parses as an [`Expr`], and that
+    /// re-serializing the parse result produces canonical
+    pub fn expr_parses_to(&self, sql: &str, canonical: &str) -> Expr {
+        let ast = self
+            .run_parser_method(sql, |parser| parser.parse_expr())
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(canonical, &ast.to_string());
+        ast
+    }
+
     /// Ensures that `sql` parses as a single [Statement], and that
     /// re-serializing the parse result produces the same `sql`
     /// string (is not modified after a serialization round-trip).
@@ -147,11 +157,7 @@ impl TestedDialects {
     /// re-serializing the parse result produces the same `sql`
     /// string (is not modified after a serialization round-trip).
     pub fn verified_expr(&self, sql: &str) -> Expr {
-        let ast = self
-            .run_parser_method(sql, |parser| parser.parse_expr())
-            .unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(sql, &ast.to_string(), "round-tripping without changes");
-        ast
+        self.expr_parses_to(sql, sql)
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/tokenizer.rs b/src/tokenizer.rs
index 83e9f317e..f20e01b71 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer.rs
@@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ struct State<'a> {
 }
 
 impl<'a> State<'a> {
+    /// return the next character and advance the stream
     pub fn next(&mut self) -> Option<char> {
         match self.peekable.next() {
             None => None,
@@ -439,6 +440,7 @@ impl<'a> State<'a> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// return the next character but do not advance the stream
     pub fn peek(&mut self) -> Option<&char> {
         self.peekable.peek()
     }
@@ -849,13 +851,13 @@ impl<'a> Tokenizer<'a> {
                 '+' => self.consume_and_return(chars, Token::Plus),
                 '*' => self.consume_and_return(chars, Token::Mul),
                 '%' => {
-                    chars.next();
+                    chars.next(); // advance past '%'
                     match chars.peek() {
-                        Some(' ') => self.consume_and_return(chars, Token::Mod),
+                        Some(' ') => Ok(Some(Token::Mod)),
                         Some(sch) if self.dialect.is_identifier_start('%') => {
                             self.tokenize_identifier_or_keyword([ch, *sch], chars)
                         }
-                        _ => self.consume_and_return(chars, Token::Mod),
+                        _ => Ok(Some(Token::Mod)),
                     }
                 }
                 '|' => {
diff --git a/tests/sqlparser_common.rs b/tests/sqlparser_common.rs
index 356926e13..a9fd419ea 100644
--- a/tests/sqlparser_common.rs
+++ b/tests/sqlparser_common.rs
@@ -1143,6 +1143,20 @@ fn parse_unary_math_with_multiply() {
     );
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn parse_mod() {
+    use self::Expr::*;
+    let sql = "a % b";
+    assert_eq!(
+        BinaryOp {
+            left: Box::new(Identifier(Ident::new("a"))),
+            op: BinaryOperator::Modulo,
+            right: Box::new(Identifier(Ident::new("b"))),
+        },
+        verified_expr(sql)
+    );
+}
+
 fn pg_and_generic() -> TestedDialects {
     TestedDialects {
         dialects: vec![Box::new(PostgreSqlDialect {}), Box::new(GenericDialect {})],
@@ -1178,6 +1192,24 @@ fn parse_json_ops_without_colon() {
     }
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn parse_mod_no_spaces() {
+    use self::Expr::*;
+    let canonical = "a1 % b1";
+    let sqls = ["a1 % b1", "a1% b1", "a1 %b1", "a1%b1"];
+    for sql in sqls {
+        println!("Parsing {sql}");
+        assert_eq!(
+            BinaryOp {
+                left: Box::new(Identifier(Ident::new("a1"))),
+                op: BinaryOperator::Modulo,
+                right: Box::new(Identifier(Ident::new("b1"))),
+            },
+            pg_and_generic().expr_parses_to(sql, canonical)
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn parse_is_null() {
     use self::Expr::*;