diff --git a/Modules/regexpr.c b/Modules/regexpr.c
index 08fcc3ab2ba..1c0f60a5b43 100644
--- a/Modules/regexpr.c
+++ b/Modules/regexpr.c
@@ -1962,8 +1962,8 @@ int re_match(regexp_t bufp,
 		if (text == textstart || text == textend)
 			goto fail;
 		if (!((SYNTAX(text[-1]) & Sword) ^ (SYNTAX(*text) & Sword)))
-			goto fail;
-		goto continue_matching;
+      		        goto continue_matching;
+		goto fail;
 	}
 	case Csyntaxspec:
 	{