I am using php. This code does not work:
<?php
$str="<?palash";
print($str);
no output but it works as soon as I introduce a space between < and ?
<?php
$str="< ?palash";
print($str);// prints '< ?palash'
It doesn't print <b?palash because it has special characters in it.
If you want to print string with special characters then you should use htmlentities function: print htmlentities($str);
It does work, but your web browser interprets it as a broken HTML tag so it doesn't know what to do with your malformed HTML.
Try pressing Ctrl + U to view the source code.
Try this:
echo htmlentities("<?palash"); // produces <?palash
you can also escape special characters by using a backslash \ before the special character ? that you want to escape
this will do what you're asking for
<?php
$str='<\?palash';
echo $str;
?>
cheers!