Searching for "-" in the contents of files There is a coding library Swiss Arrows that uses the operator -&lt;> for a particular operation. 

I don't seem to be able to search for this in the contents of files on a mac. 

Is there a particular trick I need to do to enable this?
I just tried to use Spotlight on Mavericks (10.9.2) to search for a test text file containing the -&lt;&gt; pattern and it worked. 

I used "-&lt;&gt;" as my search pattern (including the double quotes) and it found the test file.