HAML - what does the “!=” operator do?

Question

I am looking at some seemlingly standard Haml code right now, but just noticed it starts off with a \"!=\", and 5 minutes of googling has failed to give me the answer for what

Answer 1

Same as using = but doesn't sanitize the HTML

See http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html#unescaping_html

!= "Look  <up>!"

compiles to

Look <up>!

instead of

Look &ltg;up>

Answer 2

That is used for Unescaping html

Answer 3

Read this HAML Documentation. It will give you all the answers you require. I just searched for HAML tags.

Do a CTRL+F for !=. != basically valuates Ruby code just like the equals would