diff --git a/genex/sym2xps b/genex/sym2xps
index 4964cf8..955399d 100755
--- a/genex/sym2xps
+++ b/genex/sym2xps
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ EOF
 X=6000
 Y=4000
 
-sed "/^DEF $sym /,/^ENDDEF/p;d" "$lib" |
+sed "\@^DEF $sym @,/^ENDDEF/p;d" "$lib" |
   awk '/^F. / { sub(/"$/, "?\"", $2);
     print substr($1, 1, 1), substr($1, 2, 1), $2,
     $6, '$X'+$3, '$Y'+$4, $5, " 0000", $8, $9 }' >"$tmp"/fx.tmp