diff --git a/apps/app_verbose.c b/apps/app_verbose.c
index eb698f0b85a3e559a449934d421d9be56585196f..02d49af6278cd427c4337606c5e5229aa5dee50c 100644
--- a/apps/app_verbose.c
+++ b/apps/app_verbose.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int verbose_exec(struct ast_channel *chan, void *data)
 
 	if (data) {
 		if ((vtext = ast_strdupa(data))) {
-			char *tmp = strsep(&vtext, "|,");
+			char *tmp = strsep(&vtext, "|");
 			if (vtext) {
 				if (sscanf(tmp, "%d", &vsize) != 1) {
 					vsize = 0;