<> in php variables

getting strings out of html

[mifi601]

I am tryingt to extract certain elements from a webpage and am running into the problem of <> brackets. Don't know exactly what, but it does not seem to work as regular string charcters. any hunches?

[helmet]

try using entities:

&gt; for >

&lt; for <

[mifi601]

I was wondering about that, but wouldn't then the variable be the entity instead of the bracket?