diff --git a/user_guide/general/routing.html b/user_guide/general/routing.html
index 977698b..e5dac68 100644
--- a/user_guide/general/routing.html
+++ b/user_guide/general/routing.html
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
 
 <p>A typical RegEx route might look something like this:</p>
 
-<code>$route['products\/([a-z]+)\/(\d+)'] = "$1/id_$2";</code>
+<code>$route['products/([a-z]+)/(\d+)'] = "$1/id_$2";</code>
 
 <p>In the above example, a URI similar to <dfn>products/shirts/123</dfn> would instead call the <dfn>shirts</dfn> controller class and the <dfn>id_123</dfn> function.</p>