diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index 6f8651c19..89b13d9c4 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -9558,7 +9558,7 @@ void Tokenizer::simplifyOperatorName()
                     par = par->next();
                     done = false;
                 }
-                if (Token::Match(par, "[<>+-*&/=.!]") || Token::Match(par, "==|!=|<=|>=|>>|<<"))
+                if (Token::Match(par, "=|.|%op%"))
                 {
                     op += par->str();
                     par = par->next();