in reply to Re^3: How to extract special charachetrs like <=, >= != from string
in thread How to extract special charachetrs like <=, >= != from string
actually, it matches also =>, <>, !!, <=>, or in fact any combination of these four characters. It says "match these characters, one or more times".
If you want only one of the 4 characters followed by a single "=", you'd write [!<=>]=