diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5f637fcaa52e..049f85134d64 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ cargo-fmt = []
 toml = "0.2.1"
 rustc-serialize = "0.3"
 unicode-segmentation = "1.0.0"
-regex = "0.1"
+regex = "0.2"
 term = "0.4"
 strings = "0.0.1"
 diff = "0.1"
diff --git a/src/string.rs b/src/string.rs
index d8b3711040c2..8f51b09b6cc0 100644
--- a/src/string.rs
+++ b/src/string.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pub struct StringFormat<'a> {
 // FIXME: simplify this!
 pub fn rewrite_string<'a>(orig: &str, fmt: &StringFormat<'a>) -> Option<String> {
     // Strip line breaks.
-    let re = Regex::new(r"([^\\](\\\\)*)\\[\n\r][:space:]*").unwrap();
+    let re = Regex::new(r"([^\\](\\\\)*)\\[\n\r][[:space:]]*").unwrap();
     let stripped_str = re.replace_all(orig, "$1");
 
     let graphemes = UnicodeSegmentation::graphemes(&*stripped_str, false).collect::<Vec<&str>>();
diff --git a/tests/system.rs b/tests/system.rs
index b2537e80755b..257b1ec46bf9 100644
--- a/tests/system.rs
+++ b/tests/system.rs
@@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ fn read_significant_comments(file_name: &str) -> HashMap<String, String> {
         .take_while(|line| line_regex.is_match(&line))
         .filter_map(|line| {
                         regex.captures_iter(&line).next().map(|capture| {
-                (capture.at(1).expect("Couldn't unwrap capture").to_owned(),
-                 capture.at(2).expect("Couldn't unwrap capture").to_owned())
+                (capture.get(1).expect("Couldn't unwrap capture").as_str().to_owned(),
+                 capture.get(2).expect("Couldn't unwrap capture").as_str().to_owned())
             })
                     })
         .collect()