diff --git a/src/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.php b/src/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.php
index 53407a2da0..9ef4a81609 100644
--- a/src/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.php
+++ b/src/Tokenizers/Tokenizer.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ abstract class Tokenizer
      *
      * @var string
      */
-    protected $eolChar = [];
+    protected $eolChar = '';
 
     /**
      * A token-based representation of the content.