diff --git a/src/libstd/io/error.rs b/src/libstd/io/error.rs
index 121eeae9e48..6f18aad6235 100644
--- a/src/libstd/io/error.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/io/error.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ use option::Option::{self, Some, None};
 use result;
 use sys;
 
-/// A specialized [`Result`](../result/enum.Result.html) type for I/O 
+/// A specialized [`Result`](../result/enum.Result.html) type for I/O
 /// operations.
 ///
 /// This type is broadly used across `std::io` for any operation which may