diff --git a/appendices/tokens.xml b/appendices/tokens.xml
index a5881a51b4..aa74b5377f 100644
--- a/appendices/tokens.xml
+++ b/appendices/tokens.xml
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@
     </row>
     <row>
      <entry><constant>T_STRING</constant></entry>
-     <entry>"$a[a]"</entry>
+     <entry>"$a['a']"</entry>
      <entry><link linkend="language.types.string.parsing">string array index
      inside string</link></entry>
     </row>