On 09/10/2012 15:23, 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
error. There's no "contains" method in the str class, use the 'in' keyword.
I see you've already corrected youself :)
if "<TAG>' in mystring:
No need to escape any ASCII characters except backslash.
No need to escape anything if raw strings are used.
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Mark Lawrence.
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