Question

Hello I have trouble finding a string within a file which consists of the following signs and a whitespace or a newline.
I want to find the broken tag

</answ

to replace it later… the xml file lokks like the following:

”

Normally i thought i could find this by

search = i.find('</answ ') 

#or newline by:
vorkommen = i.find('</answ \n ') 

But it returns both -1…and thats not true…

Thanks a lot for any help!

Answer 1

You could broaden your set of whitespace characters to include tabs as follows.

import re
search = re.search(r'</answ\s', i).start()