Escape pound sign(#) in Coldfusion

There came a scenario, where in the query string which carried the address of the users to another application had a # sign, which broke the system. Pound sign(#), having a special meaning in coldfusion, I had pretty tough time solving it. The solution is just simple.

eg If the address goes like this

    <cfset var address1 = #447, North Avenue />(Probably this is coming from the database)

    Doubling the hash would work if it's displayed in the cfm, wrapped in <cfoutput></cfoutput>. In this case I had to use this

    <cfset queryString = queryString & Replace(address1,"##","CHR(35)","all") />

•   ## - Here pound sign is escaped by doubling it.
• CHR(35) is the ASCII equivalent of  pound(#) sign.