Fix a broken .include?(Regexp) call

What does this MR do and why?

This fixes a silly .include?(Regexp) call introduced in !64284 (diffs).

I've also added a .to_s call to the environment variable in case it's nil (e.g. in master pipelines).

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Related to #345153 (closed).