diff --git a/language/oop5/basic.xml b/language/oop5/basic.xml
index 0e707d75aa..1f6c17747a 100644
--- a/language/oop5/basic.xml
+++ b/language/oop5/basic.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of
     letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression, it
     would be expressed thus:
-    <literal>[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*</literal>.
+    <literal>^[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*$</literal>.
    </para>
    <para>
     A class may contain its