string contains and special characters

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Am 09.10.2012 16:02, schrieb loial:
> 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>") :

I can't locate a 'contains' function anywhere, what type is 'mystring'?


> Do I need to escape the characters...and if so how?

Maybe. Please provide some example code that unexpectedly fails.


Uli