displaying <tags>

[snookmz]

G'day all,

im writing a perl script, and i need to output tags such as <action> ... </action>

But html treats those as tags and therefore doesn't display them.. Is there a way to force a browser to display the text exactly as??

any help will be grately appreciated, thanks in advance /-------------------------------------
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[DeZiner]

You need to use special character to &quot;see&quot; these characters. For the

< & >

use

& # 6 0 and & # 6 2

respectively.
Remove the spaces between the four characters. It was actually showing the <> even tried using the TGML

DeZiner
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[snookmz]

Thank you Deziner,

but the problem is that because im testing my perl script, i can only output <'s and >'s, i cannot change them to other characters for the purpose of my testing..

do u know of a way to just display them as is, or is that impossible? /-------------------------------------
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[Boomerang]

Hi snookmz,

first: DeZiner's post is OK, but I always close special characters with a semi-colon &amp;#60; and &amp;#62;

second: I don't know anything about perl script but maybe this wil help you

<xmp>
<action>
</xmp>

Hope this helps,
Erik

 

[snookmz]

Thanks Boomerang!!!

You've come through with flying colours and delivered exactly what i needed

Muchly appreciated, and im in your eternal gratitude /-------------------------------------
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[tsdragon]

Here's another alternative: temporarily change your content-type header from text/html to text/plain. Tracy Dryden
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