How to escape a # in velocity

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:

## 

this:

#[[
##
]]#

will yield:

##

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


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

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

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


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