diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/sql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/sql/expression/function/scalar/string/StringFunctionUtils.java b/x-pack/plugin/sql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/sql/expression/function/scalar/string/StringFunctionUtils.java
index c9ec628b6ce..585dd3f2f4c 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/sql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/sql/expression/function/scalar/string/StringFunctionUtils.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/sql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/sql/expression/function/scalar/string/StringFunctionUtils.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ abstract class StringFunctionUtils {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Trims the trailing whitespace characters from the given String. Uses {@link java.lang.Character.isWhitespace(char)}
+     * Trims the trailing whitespace characters from the given String. Uses java.lang.Character.isWhitespace(char)
      * to determine if a character is whitespace or not.
      *
      * @param s       the original String