diff --git a/docs/source/user-guide/sql/scalar_functions_new.md b/docs/source/user-guide/sql/scalar_functions_new.md
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@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ Additional examples can be found [here](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/blo
 
 ### `regexp_match`
 
-Returns a list of [regular expression](https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#syntax) matches in a string.
+Returns the first [regular expression](https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#syntax) matche in a string.
 
 ```
 regexp_match(str, regexp[, flags])