checking regular expression equality in a shell script if statement [qnx]

Code

if [[ "${name1}" =~ "${name2}" ]]
then
echo ""
else
echo "" 
fi

Error ./main.sh[38]: syntax error: `"${name1}"' missing expression operator

Description So I'm running this to compare two variables in QNX, and am getting this error I thought that was usually caused by whitespace(or a lack of it) but I don't know where I screwed up

Also is it possibly a QNX specific error?