diff --git a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_io_qtextstream.cpp b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_io_qtextstream.cpp
index c76a0f1f3bd..ab91a00f5fe 100644
--- a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_io_qtextstream.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_io_qtextstream.cpp
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if (data.open(QFile::WriteOnly | QFile::Truncate)) {
 //! [1]
 QTextStream stream(stdin);
 QString line;
-while (stream.readLine(&line)) {
+while (stream.readLineInto(&line)) {
     ...
 }
 //! [1]
diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp
index 2fed83b2e38..8ad1c2852cc 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp
@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ QString QTextStream::readLine(qint64 maxlen)
 
     If \a line has sufficient capacity for the data that is about to be
     read, this function may not need to allocate new memory. Because of
-    this, it can be faster than the other readLine() overload.
+    this, it can be faster than readLine().
 
     Returns \c false if the stream has read to the end of the file or
     an error has occurred; otherwise returns \c true. The contents in