escaping the ? character

[Anon]

Hi,

I am writing some php scripts that generates .html and .php pages. I just began writing the .php generating portion of the script and cannot figure out how to place either <? or ?> into a string without the php script itself thinking that there is a break and generating errors.
The only way I can see to do this is: $string = "?" . ">" but that makes things difficult to read. Is there a way to escape the '?' character? Thanks.

-Chris

[reagent]

i dont understand the question.
<?
$string = "?>";
print $string;
?>

prints "?>"
on the resulting page.. no parse errors

[icd_lx]

Well, since you put it that way, you can use "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='PHP'></SCRIPT>", the only non-"?" way to put PHP code in a webpage.

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