How to match a pound (#) symbol in a regex in php (for hashtags)

Question

Very simple, I need to match the # symbol using a regex. I\'m working on a hashtag detector.

I\'ve tried searching in google and in stack overflow. One

Answer 1

You could use the following regex: /\#(\w+)/ to match a hashtag with just the hashtag word, or: /\#\w+/ will match the entire hashtag including the hash.