how to escape this ?

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In my coding I have the following lines:

for (index = 0; index < slidesNumber; index++)
{
  $('<a href="#"></a>')
}

Now I want to give each href a unique name with the index variable.
So it should look like

$('<a href="#index"></a>')

Problem is that it just displays the word 'index', and I don't know how to escape it, so that it displays the value of index.

Who can help me out?