public static string escapehtmltags( string input ) { // check if the string is null or zero length -- if so, return what was sent in. if( input == null || input.length() == 0 ) { return input; } // use a stringbuffer in lieu of string concatenation -- it is much more efficient this way. stringbuffer buf = new stringbuffer(); char ch = ´ ´; for( int i=0; ich = input.charat(i); if( ch == ´<´ ) { buf.append( "<" ); } else if( ch == ´>´ ) { buf.append( ">" ); } else { buf.append( ch ); } } return buf.tostring(); }