Star - look for the character * in a string using regex

c#, regex

Solution

You need to escape the star with a backslash: `@"\*"`

Problem

I am trying to find the following text in my string : `'***'` the thing is that the C# Regex mechanism doesnt allow me to do the following: ``` new Regex("***", RegexOptions.CultureInvariant | RegexOptions.Compiled); ``` due to ArgumentException: "parsing "*" - Quantifier {x,y} following nothing." obviously it thinks that my stars represents regular expressions, is there a way to tell the Regex mechanism to treat stars as just stars and nothing else?

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