>I'm trying your function and what is strange is that about every 3rd time I compile my project it errors during compile on it:

Hehe, the UT parser messed something up (I think it does a quick parse, and then an mhHTMLCode on the PRE sections, and it should avoid the quick parse on PRE sections, but thats just a guess).

The function, which I call xe.prg (because I use the function alot I prefer xe(string)) should use this line for the less than sign:

lcReturn = STRTRAN(lcReturn, '<', '&lt;')