extractor.go |  2 +-
 pe_test.go   | 10 ++++++++++

diff --git a/extractor.go b/extractor.go
index 8e80d2c1378494bb1e05a8edb945e478573814fe..f64fe5fb1a5a0beb0b365c175050779d17137a80 100644
--- a/extractor.go
+++ b/extractor.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ 	format string
 }
 
 func pathExtractor(input string) [][][]byte {
-	surroundRegex := "[^]()!#[ \\t:'\"\\\\]*"
+	surroundRegex := "[^]\\^\\+()!#[ \\t:'\"\\\\]*"
 	r := regexp.MustCompile("(" + surroundRegex + "[\\./]" + surroundRegex + ")")
 	temp := [][][]byte{}
 	temp = r.FindAllSubmatch([]byte(input), -1)
diff --git a/pe_test.go b/pe_test.go
index a2c563aabcc068f417ef299cdc5688a4f269b8f3..28f87f7afb3ddfb231e751b018861b1234057654 100644
--- a/pe_test.go
+++ b/pe_test.go
@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@ 	if len(output) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("Matches sentence", output)
 	}
 
+	output = GetAllMatches("s/+//", MatchOptions{})
+	if len(output) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("Doesn't match substitute", output)
+	}
+
+	output = GetAllMatches("s/^//", MatchOptions{})
+	if len(output) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("Doesn't match substitute", output)
+	}
+
 	output = GetAllMatches("/usr/bin/env\\", MatchOptions{})
 	if len(output) != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("Doesn't match escaped", output)