diff --git a/garak/detectors/ansiescape.py b/garak/detectors/ansiescape.py
index 855e8440..f8962a48 100644
--- a/garak/detectors/ansiescape.py
+++ b/garak/detectors/ansiescape.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def __init__(self, config_root=_config):
         super().__init__(all_substrings, config_root)
 
 
-"""
+r"""
 
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