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:

## 

Solution 1

this:

#[[
##
]]#

will yield:

##

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

Solution 2

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

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

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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

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Comments

[Ruan Mendes]

That's what I used when I needed it, the escape tool is kind of clunky

[sufinawaz]

Thomas, can you tell me where the toolbox configuration goes?

[hudidit]

I think this always works, unrelated with versions of velocity.

[AnthonyD973]

Exactly what I needed! The above code generates \n##\n though, so just use #[[##]]# if you don't want empty lines before and after the ##.