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Asked: 2026-05-15T14:00:25+00:00

I created a C++ program that parses a file and dumps some data into

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I created a C++ program that parses a file and dumps some data into a html file.
The output is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>Block 0xa8</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Block 0xa8</h1>
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>02        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>b0        </td>
        <td>75        </td>
        <td>05        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td>00        </td>
        <td><td>  </td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>u        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
        <td>.        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

If you open this page with a browser, you’ll see one single dot before the table. This dot is a random character and it appears for each row. I don’t want this character – how can I get rid of it? What am I doing wrong?
(Tested with Firefox, IE, Chrome).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Because you have a syntax error (<td>s cannot be directly nested):

    <td>00        </td>
<td><td>  </td>.        </td>      // <-- here
<td>.        </td>

    The DOM parser corrects this and puts the dot before the table because it does not know where to put it 😉

    Check your C++ application and fix this.

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