diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5ae63ace4..5487da01b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ of memory allocation with each new JSON document:
 /...
 
 const char * filename = ... //
-padding_string p = get_corpus(filename);
+padded_string p = get_corpus(filename);
 ParsedJson pj = build_parsed_json(p); // do the parsing
 if( ! pj.isValid() ) {
     // something went wrong