diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 858981af6a..ab47c6327a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Dec  8 06:53:10 2011  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
+
+	* doc/re.rdoc:  Fix example code to match documentation.  Patch by
+	  Jarno Lamberg.  [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5624]
+
 Wed Dec  7 19:04:22 2011  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* configure.in (rpath): fix typo in the help string.  a patch from
diff --git a/doc/re.rdoc b/doc/re.rdoc
index 0dfd8e5164..23eb37dfe2 100644
--- a/doc/re.rdoc
+++ b/doc/re.rdoc
@@ -533,8 +533,8 @@ performance.
 Consider a string of 25 <i>a</i>s, a <i>d</i>, 4 <i>a</i>s, and a
 <i>c</i>.
 
-    s = 'a' * 25 + 'd' 'a' * 4 + 'c'
-        #=> "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadadadadac"
+    s = 'a' * 25 + 'd' + 'a' * 4 + 'c'
+    #=> "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadaaaac"
 
 The following patterns match instantly as you would expect:
 
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ The following patterns match instantly as you would expect:
 
 However, the following pattern takes appreciably longer:
 
-    /(b|a+)*c/ =~ s #=> 32
+    /(b|a+)*c/ =~ s #=> 26
 
 This happens because an atom in the regexp is quantified by both an
 immediate <tt>+</tt> and an enclosing <tt>*</tt> with nothing to