diff --git a/tools/syscap_check.py b/tools/syscap_check.py
index 5ef17b2ba07f7f26060d57aeb4b99506f8b85e40..dc1c2de8362d2dbf81b75ca1c6c591715c885251 100755
--- a/tools/syscap_check.py
+++ b/tools/syscap_check.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def read_value_from_json(filepath, key_hierarchy, result_dict):
                 return result_dict
             finally:
                 f.close()
-        data = [x for x in data if len(x) != 0 and x.isspace() is False]
+        data = [x.split("=")[0].strip() for x in data if len(x) != 0 and x.isspace() is False]
         if len(data) != 0:
             result_dict[filepath] = data
     return result_dict