diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml b/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
index 5f84ee80c3..17971e06d2 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: 1.4 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.33 -->
   <refentry id="function.sscanf">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     </para>
     <para>
      Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input
-     string. This means that even a tab \n in the format string can match a
+     string. This means that even a tab \t in the format string can match a
      single space character in the input string.
     </para>
     <para>