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Re: string contains and special characters

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On 10/09/2012 10:02 AM, loial wrote:
> I am trying to match a string that containing the "<" and ">" characters, using the string contains function, but it never seems to find the lines containing the string
>
> e.g if mystring.contains("<TAG>") :
>
> Do I need to escape the characters...and if so how?
>

What language are you trying to use, and what version of that language? 
In all the Python versions I know of, that line would simply be a syntax
error.  There's no "contains" method in the str class, use the 'in' keyword.

    if  "<TAG>' in mystring:

No need to escape any ASCII characters except backslash.

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DaveA

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string contains and special characters loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 07:02 -0700
  Re: string contains and special characters Agon Hajdari <agonh@freenet.de> - 2012-10-09 16:10 +0200
    Re: string contains and special characters loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 08:09 -0700
    Re: string contains and special characters loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 08:09 -0700
  Re: string contains and special characters Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-09 10:23 -0400
  Re: string contains and special characters Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 10:34 -0400
  Re: string contains and special characters Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-09 10:34 -0400
  Re: string contains and special characters Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-09 15:50 +0100
  Re: string contains and special characters Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-10-09 16:59 +0200

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