This just bit me. It's especially confusing for beginners because the config file syntax looks a lot like bash, and in bash that extra backslash would be correct as it would simply prevent the proceeding dollar symbol from being interpreted as an environment variable, and the backslash wouldn't show up in the final regex.
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