diff --git a/language/operators.xml b/language/operators.xml
index 3176ebee04..46ff50fd9d 100644
--- a/language/operators.xml
+++ b/language/operators.xml
@@ -1788,7 +1788,7 @@ echo "Should be 4: " . $a . "<br />\n";
     PHP follows Perl's convention when dealing with arithmetic operations
     on character variables and not C's.  For example, in PHP and Perl
     <literal>$a = 'Z'; $a++;</literal> turns <literal>$a</literal> into <literal>'AA'</literal>, while in C
-    <literal>a = 'Z'; a++;</literal> turns <literal>$a</literal> into <literal>'['</literal>
+    <literal>a = 'Z'; a++;</literal> turns <literal>a</literal> into <literal>'['</literal>
     (ASCII value of <literal>'Z'</literal> is 90, ASCII value of <literal>'['</literal> is 91).
     Note that character variables can be incremented but not decremented and
     even so only plain ASCII alphabets and digits (a-z, A-Z and 0-9) are supported.