diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml b/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml
index 395c063a19..890c436fff 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.10 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.sprintf">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ printf("[%s]\n",      $s); // standard string output
 printf("[%10s]\n",    $s); // right-justification with spaces
 printf("[%-10s]\n",   $s); // left-justification with spaces
 printf("[%010s]\n",   $s); // zero-padding works on strings too
+printf("[%'#10s]\n",  $s); // use the custom padding character '#'
 printf("[%10.10s]\n", $t); // left-justification but with a cutoff of 10 characters
 ?>
 ]]>
@@ -258,6 +259,7 @@ printf("[%10.10s]\n", $t); // left-justification but with a cutoff of 10 charact
 [    monkey]
 [monkey    ]
 [0000monkey]
+[####monkey]
 [many monke]
 ]]>
      </screen>