simple echo command problem

[jotish]

hi...i have a simple snippet...
<?php
echo 'cout<<a[i];';
?>
i expect this output from it...cout<<a[i];
but it gives me only cout<
please help

[LarryMade]

it sees the <a and starts to process it as an HTML a tag, the ways around that are:

cout << a[i]; <-adding a space

cout &lt;&lt;a[i]; <- forcing less than symbols