diff --git a/tests/lang_stmts/for_stmt/tfor_ill_formed_sym.nim b/tests/lang_stmts/for_stmt/tfor_ill_formed_sym.nim
index 55c5ce0e25..920b33d692 100644
--- a/tests/lang_stmts/for_stmt/tfor_ill_formed_sym.nim
+++ b/tests/lang_stmts/for_stmt/tfor_ill_formed_sym.nim
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 discard """
   description: "Ensure that ill-formed AST generates a well formed error"
-  errormsg: "identifier expected, but found '123'"
+  errormsg: "identifier expected, but found 123"
 """
 
 # This test covers a regression where an error with the symbol outside a pragma