HTML help - how to interpret text literally

[Suk]

Hi

I've seen some HTML tag you can use such that it will display text you
enclose in them litereally rather than interpret as html

For example
<tag>
<b>Some Text</b>
</tag>

Would be displayed exactly as written rather than in bold. I've
forgotten what this tag is!!
Does anyone know? I want to be able to display text on a web page
literally without it being interpreted as HTML

 

[Brian Wakem]

Hi

I've seen some HTML tag you can use such that it will display text you
enclose in them litereally rather than interpret as html

For example
<tag>
<b>Some Text</b>
</tag>

Would be displayed exactly as written rather than in bold. I've
forgotten what this tag is!!
Does anyone know? I want to be able to display text on a web page
literally without it being interpreted as HTML

This is perl newsgroup so you'll get a perl answer.

use HTML::Entities;

my $string = <<HERE;
<tag>
<b>Some Text</b>
</tag>
HERE

print encode_entities($string);

 

[John Bokma]

Hi

I've seen some HTML tag you can use such that it will display text you
enclose in them litereally rather than interpret as html

For example
<tag>
<b>Some Text</b>
</tag>

Would be displayed exactly as written rather than in bold. I've
forgotten what this tag is!!
Does anyone know? I want to be able to display text on a web page
literally without it being interpreted as HTML

Since this a group on Perl, I give you one hint the Perl way:

s/</&lt;/g;