diff --git a/info/emp2html.pl b/info/emp2html.pl
index 2dc93a93..75283f52 100644
--- a/info/emp2html.pl
+++ b/info/emp2html.pl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ print "\n";
line: while (<>) {
chomp; # strip record separator
- s/([^\\](\\\\)*)\\\".*/$1/g; # strip comments
+ s/((^|[^\\])(\\\\)*)\\\".*/$1/g; # strip comments
@a = req($_);
if (!@a) {