diff --git a/reference/pcre/functions/preg-replace.xml b/reference/pcre/functions/preg-replace.xml
index fc6f0faf17..24457d89e1 100644
--- a/reference/pcre/functions/preg-replace.xml
+++ b/reference/pcre/functions/preg-replace.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/pcre.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.preg-replace">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
      Searches <parameter>subject</parameter> for matches to
-     <parameter> pattern</parameter> and replaces them with
+     <parameter>pattern</parameter> and replaces them with
      <parameter>replacement</parameter>. If
      <parameter>limit</parameter> is specified, then only
      <parameter>limit</parameter> matches will be replaced; if
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
       <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
-$str = "April 15, 2003";
+$string = "April 15, 2003";
 $pattern = "/(\w+) (\d+), (\d+)/i";
 $replacement = "\${1}1,\$3";
 print preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);