string contains and special characters

[Dave Angel]

On 10/09/2012 10:23 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> 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

Sorry, I should have said "Attribute" error.

> 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