How to escape hash symbol in a string in php

Question

How do you escape the hash symbol in PHP?

I want to do "DELETE FROM [#8:1]" but to make it work I have to do "DELETE FROM [".'#'."8:1]". Whilst it works, it looks a little bit clumsy, is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Use single quotes

'DELETE FROM [#8:1]'