Forum .LRN Q&A: < - translation query

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Posted by Pavel Boghita on
"You can't have a < in your first name because it will look like an HTML tag and confuse other users. "

I don't understand what '<' means; does it mean that you can't have any of the characters or the string as a whole?

thanks

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Posted by Nagita Karunaratne on
I think the string '&lt' is interpreted as a '<' symbol.