diff --git a/src/compute_pair_local.cpp b/src/compute_pair_local.cpp
index 708b31c370..3176bb667b 100644
--- a/src/compute_pair_local.cpp
+++ b/src/compute_pair_local.cpp
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ ComputePairLocal::ComputePairLocal(LAMMPS *lmp, int narg, char **arg) :
       pstyle[nvalues++] = DZ;
     else if (arg[iarg][0] == 'p') {
       int n = atoi(&arg[iarg][1]);
-      if (n <= 0) error->all(FLERR, "Invalid keyword in compute pair/local command");
+      if (n <= 0) error->all(FLERR, "Invalid keyword {} in compute pair/local command", arg[iarg]);
       pstyle[nvalues] = PN;
       pindex[nvalues++] = n - 1;
 
diff --git a/src/reader_xyz.cpp b/src/reader_xyz.cpp
index 1f379bc0dd..7add54fdb9 100644
--- a/src/reader_xyz.cpp
+++ b/src/reader_xyz.cpp
@@ -179,8 +179,7 @@ void ReaderXYZ::read_atoms(int n, int nfield, double **fields)
 
     ++nid;
     rv = sscanf(line,"%*s%lg%lg%lg", &myx, &myy, &myz);
-    if (rv != 3)
-      error->one(FLERR,"Dump file is incorrectly formatted");
+    if (rv != 3) error->one(FLERR,"Dump file is incorrectly formatted");
 
     // XXX: we could insert an element2type translation here
     // XXX: for now we flag unrecognized types as type 0,