string contains and special characters

[loial]

On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:19:33 UTC+1, Agon Hajdari wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 04:02 PM, 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? > if '<TAG>' in yourstring: # your code -- Agon Hajdari

That worked...thanks