diff --git a/providers/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/functions/VMImageToImage.java b/providers/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/functions/VMImageToImage.java
index f037cfe8b1..394b167ea8 100644
--- a/providers/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/functions/VMImageToImage.java
+++ b/providers/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/functions/VMImageToImage.java
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ public class VMImageToImage implements Function<VMImage, Image> {
    }
 
    public static VMImage decodeFieldsFromUniqueId(final String id) {
-      String fields[] = checkNotNull(id, "id").split("/");
+      String[] fields = checkNotNull(id, "id").split("/");
       VMImage vmImage;
       boolean custom = fields.length == 5;
       if (custom) {