diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/README.md b/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/README.md
index 50f9e09488..96abbbfd16 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/README.md
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ YAML implements most of the YAML 1.2 specification.
 ```php
 use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;
 
-$array = Yaml::parse($file);
+$array = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents(filename));
 
 print Yaml::dump($array);
 ```