title: Regular expression with an = and a ;
body: <p>I'm trying to use a regular expression to find all substrings that start with an equals sign (<code>=</code>) and ends with a semicolon (<code>;</code>) with any number of characters in between. It should be something like this <code>=*;</code></p>
  
  <p>For some reason, the equals is not registering. Is there some sort of escape character that will make the regex notice my equals sign?</p>
  
  <p>I'm working in Java if that has any bearings on this question.</p>