Why you should care
This pattern verifies the presence of variable assignments in conditional (IF) expressions. It is generally not recommended to use the assignment operator in this case as it is close to the comparison operator (==) and could lead to misreading the code logic.
CAST Recommendations
Assign variables outside conditional expressions.
How we detect
CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time the assignment operator (=) is detected within a conditional expression, whether it is IF, EACH or WHILE.
if(foo = "1234") { ... // +1
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