diff --git a/MeshLib/IO/MPI_IO/PropertyVectorMetaData.h b/MeshLib/IO/MPI_IO/PropertyVectorMetaData.h
index 0d1e45fd6bd5123be04d88858aaf4695b3e6795b..b541d7a4c9be7959d0baa24ab43517f0d42492af 100644
--- a/MeshLib/IO/MPI_IO/PropertyVectorMetaData.h
+++ b/MeshLib/IO/MPI_IO/PropertyVectorMetaData.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ inline void writePropertyVectorMetaData(PropertyVectorMetaData const& pvmd)
     DBUG("is_int_data_type: %d", pvmd.is_int_type);
     DBUG("is_data_type_signed: %d", pvmd.is_data_type_signed);
     DBUG("data_type_size_in_bytes: %d", pvmd.data_type_size_in_bytes);
-    DBUG("number of components: i%d", pvmd.number_of_components);
+    DBUG("number of components: %d", pvmd.number_of_components);
     DBUG("number of tuples: %d", pvmd.number_of_tuples);
 }