Regular Expression search for * character

gwgs · Post by **gwgs** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:31 pm

Is there a way of searching for the * character as part of a regular expression?

Thanks

Grant

Post by **jussij** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:07 pm

Is there a way of searching for the * character as part of a regular expression?

There are several reserved regex characters: ^*~$[]{}\+-.?

To search for any of these all you have to do is esacpe them using the \ character.

So in your case you need to use this search string: \*

Cheers Jussi