From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-04-27T02:35:32+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Kevin Austin <nitsuanivek@comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm writing a script that is looking through a file for the following
> lines
>
>
> *something*
>
>
> and replacing it with
>
>
> *something* - info about the something
>
>
> my problem is that I can't find info about searching for the "*"
> character.
>
> I've been reviewing the regular expression docs and can only find the
> usage for "*" and not how to search for *#{stuff}*

* is a special character for regular expressions, so you have to escape it:

/\*something\*/

Jesus.