diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_mprintf.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_mprintf.3
index 133c4afc98..720632ed8c 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_mprintf.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_mprintf.3
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ by the corresponding argument.
 A '%' is written. No argument is converted.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 .nf
-  mprintf("My name is %s\\n", name);
-  mprintf("Pi is almost %f\\n", 25/8);
+  curl_mprintf("My name is %s\\n", name);
+  curl_mprintf("Pi is almost %f\\n", 25/8);
 .fi
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 These functions will be removed from the public libcurl API in the future. Do