From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2011-02-03T12:50:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Need "=" to look like a strint

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:
> On 2/2/2011 12:19 PM, Bob Hatch wrote:
>> I have the following variable. Ruby looks at the = sign as a regex
>> literal and I need it to be recognized as text.
>>
>> search_text =! %r{
>>   =
>> }x
>
> You have a typo in your code sample here, and the message you see as a
> result is:
>
> warning: regex literal in condition
>
> That is because of the =! you have.  Ruby breaks that down into an
> assigment (the = part) and a boolean negation (the ! part) of the
> following regexp.  You need to change the =! to just = as follows:
>
> search_text = %r{
>  =
> }

I think he meant to use =~ instead.