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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:23:42 -0400
From: Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
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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.

-- 

DaveA