diff --git a/Doc/changelog.docu b/Doc/changelog.docu
index b497a8b6..4f12db85 100644
--- a/Doc/changelog.docu
+++ b/Doc/changelog.docu
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 <li>PLY Reader: Allowing the PLY reader to read custom face ( Thanks to morgan Leborgne for the patch)</li>
 <li>PLY Reader: Fixed endless loop on unknown property list type</li>
 <li>PLY Reader: Fix hang when reading directly from istream (Thanks to Paul Loré for the patch)</li>
+<li>PLY Reader: Fix file load for ASCII PLY without a newline at the end of the file (Thanks to Mathieu Lamarre for the patch )
 <li>OM Writer/Reader: Update file format version to 2.0. Older files can still be read, but older OpenMesh versions cannot read new format.</li>
 <li>OM Writer/Reader: Fixed inconsistent writing/reading of edge properties</li>
 <li>OM Writer/Reader: Add option to store status</li>
diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
index 1b35d53d..4617afe9 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
@@ -306,6 +306,14 @@ bool _PLYReader_::read_ascii(std::istream& _in, BaseImporter& _bi, const Options
 
 	for (std::vector<ElementInfo>::iterator e_it = elements_.begin(); e_it != elements_.end(); ++e_it)
 	{
+	        if (_in.eof()) {
+			if (err_enabled)
+				omerr().enable();
+
+			omerr() << "Unexpected end of file while reading." << std::endl;
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		if (e_it->element_== VERTEX)
 		{
 			// read vertices:
@@ -475,14 +483,6 @@ bool _PLYReader_::read_ascii(std::istream& _in, BaseImporter& _bi, const Options
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (_in.eof()) {
-			if (err_enabled)
-				omerr().enable();
-
-			omerr() << "Unexpected end of file while reading." << std::endl;
-			return false;
-		}
-
 		if(e_it->element_== FACE)
 			// stop reading after the faces since additional elements are not preserved anyway
 			break;