diff --git a/stand/lua/config.lua b/stand/lua/config.lua
index 9ef7c0796f4..7fff5c2ba38 100644
--- a/stand/lua/config.lua
+++ b/stand/lua/config.lua
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ local MSG_FAILSYN_EOLVAR = "Unescaped $ at end of line"
 local MSG_FAILSYN_BADVAR = "Malformed variable expression at position '%d'"
 
 local MODULEEXPR = '([-%w_]+)'
-local QVALEXPR = '"(.*)"'
+local QVALEXPR = '"([^"]*)"'
 local QVALREPL = QVALEXPR:gsub('%%', '%%%%')
 local WORDEXPR = "([-%w%d][-%w%d_.]*)"
 local WORDREPL = WORDEXPR:gsub('%%', '%%%%')