Check If Backslash In String In Python

Last updated June 21, 2023 by Jarvis Silva

In this tutorial I will show you how to check if a backslash(\) is there in a string in python, to check whether there is a backslash in a string we will use if statement and check if there is a backslash in the string so let’s see it in code.

Program To Check If Backslash In String In Python

text = "hi \ how are you"

if '\\' in text:
    print("there is a backlash")

Above is the program to check if backslash in string in python, we used if statement to check if there is any backslash in the string text.

Now to run this program you need to have python installed on your computer, If you don’t have then follow this guide: Install and setup python on your computer or use this online python compiler.

After running this program you will see that it printed that there is a backslash in the string. As you can see in the program we used two backslash to check because if we used one backslash to check it will give us error.

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