为什么substr（）不返回正确的值？ [关闭]

Question

I have a following code:

$string = "aaa<test>xxx</test>bbb";
echo substr($string, 9);

As a result should be: xxx</test>bbb

In the meantime I receive just: xxxbbb

What happened with the tag? Why this function automatically crops it! If I replace < with [ works... I would like to obtain just a closing tag in my variable.

Answer 1

It works fine if you do it in the command line. Are you looking at your output through a browser? The browser might be trying to parse the tag and then ignoring it.