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no-div-regex

Disallow equal signs explicitly at the beginning of regular expressions

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

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

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:

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

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

Examples of correct code for this rule:

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

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

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint v0.1.0.

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