diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/stripos.xml b/reference/strings/functions/stripos.xml
index 2fbe1aa3dda0..e30d830b6e86 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/stripos.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/stripos.xml
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ if ($pos1 === false) {
     echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring1'", PHP_EOL;
 }
 
-// Note our use of ===.  Simply == would not work as expected
+// Note our use of !==.  Simply != would not work as expected
 // because the position of 'a' is the 0th (first) character.
 if ($pos2 !== false) {
     echo "We found '$findme' in '$mystring2' at position $pos2", PHP_EOL;