diff --git a/reference/array/functions/array-splice.xml b/reference/array/functions/array-splice.xml
index 1aba8b4669..91a9b65870 100644
--- a/reference/array/functions/array-splice.xml
+++ b/reference/array/functions/array-splice.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/array.xml, last change in rev 1.14 -->
   <refentry id="function.array-splice">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ array_push ($input, $x, $y)     array_splice ($input, count ($input), 0,
 array_pop ($input)              array_splice ($input, -1)
 array_shift ($input)            array_splice ($input, 0, 1)
 array_unshift ($input, $x, $y)  array_splice ($input, 0, 0, array ($x, $y))
-$a[$x] = $y                     array_splice ($input, $x, 1, $y)
+$input[$x] = $y                 array_splice ($input, $x, 1, $y)
 ]]>
      </programlisting>
     </para>