diff --git a/src/data.go b/src/data.go
index 87126972..ecb89779 100644
--- a/src/data.go
+++ b/src/data.go
@@ -5,22 +5,32 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"strings"
-
+	"os"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/hcl"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/hcl/hcl/ast"
 )
 
 // GetResources retrieves all the resources in a tf file
-func GetResources(file fs.FileInfo, dirname string) []Resource {
+func GetResources(file fs.FileInfo, dirname string) ([]Resource, error ){
 
 	var results []Resource
 
-	src, err := ioutil.ReadFile(dirname + file.Name())
+	fullfile:=dirname + string(os.PathSeparator)+ file.Name()
+	
+	src, err := ioutil.ReadFile(fullfile)
+
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	myCode, _ := hcl.Parse(string(src))
+	myCode, err := hcl.Parse(string(src))
+
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("failed to parse %s", fullfile )
+		log.Print(err)
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
 	Tree := myCode.Node.(*ast.ObjectList)
 
 	for _, item := range Tree.Items {
@@ -32,7 +42,7 @@ func GetResources(file fs.FileInfo, dirname string) []Resource {
 	}
 
 	// resources, filename, code
-	return results
+	return results, nil
 }
 
 // GetProvider retrieves the provider from the resource
diff --git a/src/scan.go b/src/scan.go
index 21dd7a27..7eac7dfc 100644
--- a/src/scan.go
+++ b/src/scan.go
@@ -3,13 +3,25 @@ package pike
 import (
 	"io/fs"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"log"
+	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 )
 
 // Scan looks for resources in a given directory
 func Scan(dirname string) error {
 
-	files, err2 := GetTF(dirname)
+	fulldir, err:=filepath.Abs(dirname)
+	fulldir=strings.TrimSuffix(fulldir, string(os.PathSeparator))
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+    log.Print(fulldir)
+
+	files, err2 := GetTF(fulldir)
 	if err2 != nil {
 		return err2
 	}
@@ -18,7 +30,11 @@ func Scan(dirname string) error {
 
 	for _, file := range files {
 
-		resources := GetResources(file, dirname)
+		resources, err := GetResources(file, fulldir)
+		
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
 
 		for _, resource := range resources {
 			hcltype := GetHCLType(resource)
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index 8aa9ecd9..586093f8 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -33,3 +33,6 @@ nat_gateway
 
 handle
 2022/07/24 07:00:37 data aws_caller_identity not found
+
+parse/ignore variables hcl.parse the correct parser?
+https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/parse-hcl-treating-variables-or-functions-as-raw-strings-hashicorp-hcl/5859/2