Merge branch 'ticket/next/5477' into next

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/lexer.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/lexer.rb
index 4050adeb8..2f416615e 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parser/lexer.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/lexer.rb
@@ -312,7 +312,8 @@ class Puppet::Parser::Lexer
   def file=(file)
     @file = file
     @line = 1
-    @scanner = StringScanner.new(File.read(file))
+    contents = File.exists?(file) ? File.read(file) : ""
+    @scanner = StringScanner.new(contents)
   end
 
   def shift_token
@@ -547,7 +548,7 @@ class Puppet::Parser::Lexer
     value,terminator = slurpstring('"$')
     token_queue << [TOKENS[token_type[terminator]],preamble+value]
     if terminator != '$' or @scanner.scan(/\{/)
-      token_queue.shift 
+      token_queue.shift
     elsif var_name = @scanner.scan(%r{(\w*::)*\w+|[0-9]})
       token_queue << [TOKENS[:VARIABLE],var_name]
       tokenize_interpolated_string(DQ_continuation_token_types)
diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/parser_support.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/parser_support.rb
index 746aa0f90..7888fe1dc 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parser/parser_support.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/parser_support.rb
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ class Puppet::Parser::Parser
       unless file =~ /\.pp$/
         file = file + ".pp"
       end
-      raise Puppet::Error, "Could not find file #{file}" unless FileTest.exist?(file)
     end
     raise Puppet::AlreadyImportedError, "Import loop detected" if known_resource_types.watching_file?(file)