diff --git a/modules/nf-lang/src/main/java/nextflow/script/control/ScriptToGroovyHelper.java b/modules/nf-lang/src/main/java/nextflow/script/control/ScriptToGroovyHelper.java
index e9f44c49e3..e1e545fa9a 100644
--- a/modules/nf-lang/src/main/java/nextflow/script/control/ScriptToGroovyHelper.java
+++ b/modules/nf-lang/src/main/java/nextflow/script/control/ScriptToGroovyHelper.java
@@ -180,8 +180,14 @@ public String getSourceText(Statement node) {
                 builder.append( line.substring(0, k) );
             }
 
+            // determine range of current line
             var begin = (i == first) ? colx - 1 : 0;
             var end = (i == last) ? colz - 1 : line.length();
+
+            // skip trailing newline (e.g. for block statements)
+            if( i == last && begin == end )
+                continue;
+
             builder.append( line.substring(begin, end) ).append('\n');
         }
         return builder.toString();
diff --git a/modules/nf-lang/src/test/groovy/nextflow/script/control/ScriptToGroovyHelperTest.groovy b/modules/nf-lang/src/test/groovy/nextflow/script/control/ScriptToGroovyHelperTest.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f96ccc905f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-lang/src/test/groovy/nextflow/script/control/ScriptToGroovyHelperTest.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2024-2025, Seqera Labs
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package nextflow.script.control
+
+import spock.lang.Shared
+import spock.lang.Specification
+import test.TestUtils
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author Ben Sherman <bentshermann@gmail.com>
+ */
+class ScriptToGroovyHelperTest extends Specification {
+
+    @Shared
+    ScriptParser scriptParser
+
+    def setupSpec() {
+        scriptParser = new ScriptParser()
+    }
+
+    def parse(String contents) {
+        scriptParser.compiler().getSources().clear()
+        def source = scriptParser.parse('main.nf', contents.stripIndent())
+        assert !TestUtils.hasSyntaxErrors(source)
+        return source
+    }
+
+    def 'should get source text of process body' () {
+        given:
+        def source = parse('''\
+            process hello {
+                script:
+                """
+                echo 'hello!'
+                """
+            }
+            ''')
+        def sgh = new ScriptToGroovyHelper(source)
+
+        when:
+        def process = source.getAST().getProcesses().first()
+        then:
+        sgh.getSourceText(process.exec) == '    """\n    echo \'hello!\'\n    """\n'
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/checks/resume-syntax-parser-v1-v2.nf/.checks b/tests/checks/resume-syntax-parser-v1-v2.nf/.checks
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..178c51e370
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/checks/resume-syntax-parser-v1-v2.nf/.checks
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+set -e
+
+#
+# run normal mode
+#
+echo ''
+
+NXF_SYNTAX_PARSER=v1 $NXF_RUN | tee stdout
+
+[[ `< .nextflow.log grep -c 'Submitted process > hello'` == 1 ]] || false
+
+#
+# RESUME mode
+#
+echo ''
+NXF_SYNTAX_PARSER=v2 $NXF_RUN -resume | tee stdout
+
+[[ `< .nextflow.log grep -c 'Cached process > hello'` == 1 ]] || false
diff --git a/tests/resume-syntax-parser-v1-v2.nf b/tests/resume-syntax-parser-v1-v2.nf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a31dcbdd5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/resume-syntax-parser-v1-v2.nf
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
+/*
+ * Copyright 2013-2024, Seqera Labs
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+process hello {
+    input:
+    val greeting
+
+    output:
+    stdout
+
+    script:
+    """
+    echo '${greeting}'
+    """
+}
+
+workflow {
+    hello( 'ciao' ).view()
+}