diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/str-replace.xml b/reference/strings/functions/str-replace.xml
index c91baab62f..76f8e87900 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/str-replace.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/str-replace.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.17 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.18 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.str-replace">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -56,9 +56,10 @@
      <parameter>replace</parameter> has fewer values than
      <parameter>search</parameter>, then an empty string is used for
      the rest of replacement values. If <parameter>search</parameter>
-     is an array and <parameter>replace</parameter> is a string; then
+     is an array and <parameter>replace</parameter> is a string, then
      this replacement string is used for every value of
-     <parameter>search</parameter>.
+     <parameter>search</parameter>. The converse would not make sense,
+     though. 
     </para>
     <para>
      <example>