diff --git a/src/cli/src/templates/utils.ts b/src/cli/src/templates/utils.ts
index 8362959..5c254e5 100644
--- a/src/cli/src/templates/utils.ts
+++ b/src/cli/src/templates/utils.ts
@@ -316,9 +316,15 @@ const pageModelArguments = (path: string[], options : Options) : string => {
   }
 }
 
-// Used in place of sophisticated AST parsing
-const exposes = (keyword: string) => (elmSourceCode: string): boolean =>
-  new RegExp(`module\\s(\\S)+\\sexposing(\\s)+\\([^\\)]*${keyword}[^\\)]*\\)`, 'm').test(elmSourceCode)
+const exposes = (value : string) => (str : string) : boolean => {
+  const regex = new RegExp('^module\\s+[^\\s]+\\s+exposing\\s+\\(([^)]+)\\)')
+  const match = (str.match(regex) || [])[1]
+  if (match) {
+    return match.split(',').filter(a => a).map(a => a.trim()).includes(value)
+  } else {
+    return false
+  }
+}
 
 export const exposesModel = exposes('Model')
 export const exposesMsg = exposes('Msg')
@@ -334,4 +340,4 @@ export const isStaticPage = (src : string) =>
   exposesPageFunction(src)
 
 export const isStaticView = (src : string) =>
-  exposesViewFunction(src)
\ No newline at end of file
+  exposesViewFunction(src)