From 4d5734558bd78f71e576e5946256cbc758863bd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bybai <bybai@cn.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:47:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] issue1308 lsdef and Rest API issues with regex on nicks

---
 perl-xCAT/xCAT/DBobjUtils.pm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/DBobjUtils.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/DBobjUtils.pm
index f71625898..780f5fbcc 100755
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/DBobjUtils.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/DBobjUtils.pm
@@ -2458,6 +2458,10 @@ sub expandnicsattr()
     # Value: eth0!1.1.1.1|2.1.1.1,eth1!3.1.1.1|4.1.1.1
     my $nicval=$2;
 
+    #In the lsdef, remove the ^| and |$ before displaying
+    $nicval=~s/(^\||\|$)//g;
+        
+
     # $nicarr[0]: eth0!1.1.1.1|2.1.1.1
     # $nicarr[1]: eth1!3.1.1.1|4.1.1.1
     my @nicarr = split(/,/, $nicval);