'str.contains' not returning values in dataframe

Question

I'm cleaning some text data and I'm not able to locate rows containing certain strings. If I do a simple boolean, I get:

'<! [CDATA[! function( d,s, id){varjs, fjs=d. getElementsByTagName( s)[0],p= ^' in articles.loc[25111, 'content']

True

But if I select rows with that exact same string, I get an empty dataframe:

articles[articles['content'].str.contains('<! [CDATA[! function( d,s, id){varjs, fjs=d. getElementsByTagName( s)[0],p= ^')]

id  title   author  date    content year    month   publication category    digital section url stems

Why would this happen?

jezrael · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-22 04:14:03Z

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I think some values are read as regex, so need parameter regex=False in str.contains.

s = '<! [CDATA[! function( d,s, id){varjs, fjs=d. getElementsByTagName( s)[0],p= ^'
articles[articles['content'].str.contains(s, regex=False)]

answered Jul 22, 2017 at 4:14

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