#Hashtags— I cannot escape the "#" symbol

[MakeItTillYouMakeIt]

Goal:

I am trying to post hashtags on social media.

Problem:

The “Hashtags” element (seen below) doesn’t populate.

Here’s how I’m trying to escape the hashtag:

Text version of the formula above:

{{replace(4.Hashtags; “/([|{}@()<>#*_~\])/g”; “$1”)}}

Question for you: How do I escape the “#” symbol to post the hashtags?

[samliew]

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[MakeItTillYouMakeIt]

Here’s the total scenario:

I’m using Airtable:

The output has hashtags.

For some reason those hashtags don’t post on LinkedIn.

My guess is that it’s the “#” symbol.

So I tried using the replace() function to escape the hashtag.

Here’s what the regex outputs:

But that doesn’t publish to LinkedIn.

[samliew]

Try

{hashtag|\\#|digitalmarketing}

[MakeItTillYouMakeIt]

Thanks for your response! Where do I put that line? Inside the replace() function as a replacement string?

[MakeItTillYouMakeIt]

OK, getting closer!

Trying a few options:

Returns this:

So if I could just remove the \ from this:

I’d be set!

Do you know to escape just that ?

[samliew]

[MakeItTillYouMakeIt]

Thanks! Weirdly, I thought that was how I set it up originally and it didn’t work (which is why I posted here). But it works now!