how to detect an escape sequence in a string
- by mix
Given a string named line whose raw version has this value:
\rRAWSTRING
how can I detect if it has the escape character \r? What I've tried is:
if repr(line).startswith('\r'):
blah...
but it doesn't catch it. I also tried find, such as:
if repr(line).find('\r') != -1:
blah
doesn't work either. What am I missing?
thx!
EDIT:
thanks for all the replies and the corrections re terminolgy and sorry for the confusion.
OK, if i do this
print repr(line)
then what it prints is:
'\rSET ENABLE ACK\n'
(including the single quotes). i have tried all the suggestions, including:
line.startswith(r'\r')
line.startswith('\\r')
each of which returns False. also tried:
line.find(r'\r')
line.find('\\r')
each of which returns -1
