How to escape a # in velocity

Question

I would like to know how can i escape a # in velocity. Backslash seems to escape it but it prints itself as well

This:

\#\#

prints:

\#\#

I would like:

## 

Answer 1

this:

#[[
##
]]#

will yield:

##

anything within #[[ ... ]]# is unparsed.

Answer 2

If you don't want to bother with the EscapeTool, you can do this:

#set( $H = '#' )
$H$H

Answer 3

Maybe, the following site helps? http://velocity.apache.org/tools/1.4/generic/EscapeTool.html

Answer 4

Add the esc tool to your toolbox and then you can use ${esc.hash}

Answer 5

${esc.h} will output # as per

this link

Answer 6

The set technique is a good way to get around any characters you need escaping, like if you want to have $name followed by "_lastname" then you can do:

set ($n = '_lastname)

and have this in your template:

$name$n

and it's all good.