no-div-regex

Disallow equal signs explicitly at the beginning of regular expressions

Characters /= at the beginning of a regular expression literal can be confused with a division assignment operator.

function bar() { return /=foo/; }
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Rule Details

This rule forbids equal signs (=) after the slash (/) at the beginning of a regular expression literal, because the characters /= can be confused with a division assignment operator.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

/*eslint no-div-regex: "error"*/

function bar() { return /=foo/; }
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Examples of correct code for this rule:

/*eslint no-div-regex: "error"*/

function bar() { return /[=]foo/; }
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Related Rules

• no-control-regex
• no-regex-spaces

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint v0.1.0.

Resources

• Rule source
• Tests source