diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml b/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
index 1b1171be3c..87dbfac9d3 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.13 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.33 -->
   <refentry id="function.sscanf">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
      The function <function>sscanf</function> is the input analog of
      <function>printf</function>. <function>sscanf</function> reads
      from the string <parameter>str</parameter> and interprets it
-     according to the specified <parameter>format</parameter>. If only
+     according to the specified <parameter>format</parameter>, which is
+     described in the documentation for <function>sprintf</function>. If only
      two parameters were passed to this function, the values parsed
      will be returned as an array. Otherwise, if optional parameters are passed,
      the function will return the number of assigned values. The optional