I looked in the faq section under "how do I...?" but did not see this. How do I put text in a code block so it does not execute?
If you want to quote formated code [code] [/code] will do the trick.
If you want other code to not execute [noparse] [/noparse] will do the trick (infact that last used [noparse][noparse] [/noparse] [/noparse] to achieve the effect, and that used ...) .