From f467dbbaded5ddf5b059b9b000096363e3287e0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolay Bobrovskiy <nikolay.bobrovsky@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:20:44 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #1067

---
 src/Serilog/Parsing/MessageTemplateParser.cs | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Serilog/Parsing/MessageTemplateParser.cs b/src/Serilog/Parsing/MessageTemplateParser.cs
index 7a9e1003c..644697e60 100644
--- a/src/Serilog/Parsing/MessageTemplateParser.cs
+++ b/src/Serilog/Parsing/MessageTemplateParser.cs
@@ -133,11 +133,8 @@ static MessageTemplateToken ParsePropertyToken(int startAt, string messageTempla
                 if (lastDash > 0)
                     return new TextToken(rawText, first);
 
-                var width = lastDash == -1 ?
-                    int.Parse(alignment) :
-                    int.Parse(alignment.Substring(1));
-
-                if (width == 0)
+                var width = 0;
+                if (!int.TryParse(lastDash == -1 ? alignment : alignment.Substring(1), out width) || width == 0)
                     return new TextToken(rawText, first);
 
                 var direction = lastDash == -1 ?