Parser escape characters

[DrunkZombie]

To anyone familiar with the parser, is there a way in the output function to display a '<'?

The standard actionscript escape sequences don't work. It looks like the parser is removing it during cleanup as an erroneous tag opening.

 

[lighterfluid]

Do &lt and &gt work?

 

[DrunkZombie]

No. Since the parser works at runtime, it looks like the compiler changes them to < and >, than the parser removes them. I also tried escape characters with hex codes and it is still removed.

I found a work around for my current project but it would be nice to know for the future.