diff --git a/dictquery/tokenizer.py b/dictquery/tokenizer.py
index 2c812fc..325734d 100644
--- a/dictquery/tokenizer.py
+++ b/dictquery/tokenizer.py
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
     ('NONE',        r'NULL|NONE|NIL'),
     ('NOW',         r'NOW'),
     ('STRING',      r'{}|{}'.format(
-                        r'"([^"\\]*|\\["\\bfnrt\/]|\\u[0-9a-f]{4})*"',
-                        r"'([^'\\]*|\\['\\bfnrt\/]|\\u[0-9a-f]{4})*'")),
+                        r'"([^"\\]*|(?:\\[\w\d\s]+){1,}\\?|\\["\\bfnrt\/]|\\u[0-9a-f]{4})*"',
+                        r"'([^'\\]*|(?:\\[\w\d\s]+){1,}\\?|\\['\\bfnrt\/]|\\u[0-9a-f]{4})*'")),
     ('LPAR',        r'\('),
     ('RPAR',        r'\)'),
     ('LBRACKET',    r'\['),
diff --git a/tests/test_parser.py b/tests/test_parser.py
index dc562f0..2d3b0bc 100644
--- a/tests/test_parser.py
+++ b/tests/test_parser.py
@@ -81,6 +81,18 @@ def test_parse_array(self):
         self.assertEqual(result.value[2].value, 'hello')
         self.assertEqual(result.value[3].value, 'world')
 
+    def test_parse_string_path(self):
+        parser = DataQueryParser()
+        pathString = '\\Reverse\\Slash\\path';
+        result = parser.parse(f'"{pathString}"');
+        self.assertIsInstance(result, StringExpression)
+        self.assertEqual(result.value, pathString);
+
+        pathString = pathString + '\\ExtraSlash\\';
+        result = parser.parse(f'"{pathString}"');
+        self.assertIsInstance(result, StringExpression)
+        self.assertEqual(result.value, pathString);
+
     def test_parse_equal(self):
         parser = DataQueryParser()
         result = parser.parse('35 == 13')