what is the name of this operator: =~ and where can I read more about it?

[Paul Pfaff]

Hey group,

really new to node and javascript, (and most other programming) so far I am enjoying this library, I guessed that !=~ is a not for this symbol and it appears to work, but I'm not familar with it's name (does it exist outside of nools?) I'm having a hard searching for it on google.

Thanks in advance.

[Chris Dolan]

In Perl, I've often heard this called the "match operator". But apparently it's officially the "binding operator"

  http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Binding-Operators

I think it means the same thing in Ruby.

Chris

[Rodolfo hernandez]

Mmm Im not sure if that binding operator exists in javascript.. could you show where is used ? For me seems like a bit negation assigment