diff --git a/src/framework/core/code_generator.py b/src/framework/core/code_generator.py
index 7fa7499166edec35f4aaf6c1e8f13bb19388e8db..6c6926d7630f1bcfbc477ea608771c08be9e2ca7 100755
--- a/src/framework/core/code_generator.py
+++ b/src/framework/core/code_generator.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def c_identifier_camel(name):
             break
         else:
             name = tmp
-    name.strip("_")
+    name = name.strip("_")
 
     # remove all "_", if this does not by accident concatenate two numbers
     istart = 0