finding html tags

Hi All -

I am trying to find if a particular string has html tags in it. For example

<cfset myStr = "<p>Hello WOrld</p>">

I am using the following line of code to see if p tags exist

<cfoutput>#FindNoCase("<p>",htmlCodeFormat(myStr))#</cfoutput>

The above always returns 0. Do I need to use regex to achieve the desired result?

Thanks