diff --git a/python/obitools3/parsers/header.pyx b/python/obitools3/parsers/header.pyx
index 1a135ab..e54963d 100644
--- a/python/obitools3/parsers/header.pyx
+++ b/python/obitools3/parsers/header.pyx
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ cpdef tuple parseHeader(str header):
     m=header[1:-1].split(maxsplit=1)
    
     ident=m[0]
+    if ident[-1] == ';':
+        ident = ident[:-1]
     
     if len(m)==1:
         tags={}