diff --git a/src/scanner.l b/src/scanner.l
index 4a55e1652d7d238ebaa8b9937e54f228e664a3b5..ef6a8cc9305c2aea2bb8e29b5408b312708908e0 100644
--- a/src/scanner.l
+++ b/src/scanner.l
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ identifier   [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*
 
 {string_literal}  { /* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14185172/lex-how-to-eliminate-double-quotes-from-a-string-literal */
                     char* str = malloc(sizeof(char) * yyleng+3);
-                                        strcpy(str, "\\");
-                                        strncpy(str+1, yytext, yyleng-1);
-                                        strcpy(str+yyleng, "\\\"");
-                                        str[yyleng+2] = '\0';
-                                        yylval->TK_STRING_LITERAL = str;
-                                        return TK_STRING_LITERAL;  }
+                    strcpy(str, "\\");
+                    strncpy(str+1, yytext, yyleng-1);
+                    strcpy(str+yyleng, "\\\"");
+                    str[yyleng+2] = '\0';
+                    yylval->TK_STRING_LITERAL = str;
+                    return TK_STRING_LITERAL;  }