How can you display < in the heading of a report?

I would like to do something like the following:

<------>

Your post doesn't read the same as you posted it.

DEFINE FILE HOLD2
LTSYMB/A1 WITH STU_ID = '<';
END
TABLE FILE HOLD2
HEADING
"STUDENT'S WHOSE LAST TERM ACTIVITY WAS &TERM " "

I just tried this and it worked to show the < in the heading.

Is there a way of doing it without creating a define?

I don't know the answer on that one, do you want to use it for a specific purpose to say less than the shorthand way?

I think I tried using it in a footing once and just went to LT to solve it.

The brain cells are getting a bit fuzzy these days.

Leah C

I was able to get < in the heading by just using &|lt.

reFOCUSing, can you show me an example of this:
"I was able to get < in the heading by just using &|lt"?
Thanks.

The reason this functions (in HTML) is that a web browser will replace &lt; with the left carat and &gt; with the right hand version. so this code will give you the required output -

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DCOST
BY COUNTRY
HEADING
"&|lt;-----------------&|gt;"
END

T

Wow this post is old. Thanks for the replies but maybe I should have told you we are displaying the reports in PDF and not HTML.

Thanks, but, unfortunately, I'm working with EXL2K and this approach doesn't seem to work.

Move to using a field value then -

-DEFAULT &Format = 'EXL2K'
DEFINE FILE CAR
  HEADER/A30 = IF '&Format' EQ 'HTML'  THEN '&|lt;----------------&|gt;'
          ELSE '<---------------->';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DCOST
BY COUNTRY
HEADING
"<HEADER"
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &Format
END

T

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