Less Than symbol causing me problems.

[DavidCoop]

Greetings!

I have just had considerable difficulty posting a formula which contained the LESS THAN symbol. Everything after the symbol was ignored, so the formula was only half complete.

Any idea why, and how to resolve? (I ended up posting LT and told the OP to change it).

Regards, David

 

[xenou]

Hi,
the less than symbol is part of the html markup language. Simplest is when using these symbols to enclose in the php tags. There are other workarounds but that's my goto.

example:

my post with < and > signs

 

[DavidCoop]

Thanks for your reply, but I don't know what a php tag is or how to apply is (or turn it off for that matter).

Would you please give a little bit more detail?

 

[taurean]

[PHP ]Your formula here![/PHP ]
If you remove spaces just before square brackets in above line then you get following result.

Your formula here!

When you reply using Quick Reply option, there is a button "Go Advanced" [Next "Post Quick Reply"]. Here you'd get more options and one of them is php code posting which does it with click of button.

Or you can ask OP to remove space:
=MATCH(C2,$E$7:$E$15,0) <MATCH(B2,$E$7:$E$15,0)

 

[VoG]

Just surround the < symbol with spaces

=A1 < B1

 

[xenou]

Just surround the < symbol with spaces

=A1 < B1

This is the other "goto"

check your settings, under general settings, what is your message editor interface setting?