How to escape hash in markdown syntax?

Question

How do I escape the hash value inside a code snippet in markdown? All tries resulted to a red display of the character (invalid)

```gradle
# My gradle comment
artifactory_user=YOUR_ARTIFACTORY_USER
artifactory_password=YOUR_ARTIFACTORY_PW
```

I tried already

\\#
\#
##
&#35;

None of these works?!

What flavour of Markdown? HTML entities (#) should definitely work in most parsers... — Polygnome, Aug 23 '17 at 12:02
This doesn't work inside a code widget. Its gitlab flavored markdown — Fahim, Aug 23 '17 at 12:25

ChrisGPT was on strike · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-23T15:04:54.663

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That's because it is invalid. Gradle syntax is based on Groovy syntax. Single-line comments in both Gradle and Groovy use //, not #:

```gradle
// My gradle comment
```

Thanks for the OP for pointing out that gradle.properties files use # for comments. The following code block with the language set to properties works as expected:

```properties
# My gradle comment
artifactory_user=YOUR_ARTIFACTORY_USER
artifactory_password=YOUR_ARTIFACTORY_PW
```

edited Aug 23 '17 at 15:04

answered Aug 23 '17 at 12:43

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You are fully right, I got messed up since it was the gradle.properties. So the right syntax is "properties"... and then it works without any escaping character. – Fahim Aug 23 '17 at 12:46

How to escape hash in markdown syntax?

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