title: Star - look for the character * in a string using regex
body: <p>I am trying to find the following text in my string : <code>'***'</code>
  the thing is that the C# Regex mechanism doesnt allow me to do the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>new Regex("***", RegexOptions.CultureInvariant | RegexOptions.Compiled);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>due to</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>ArgumentException: "parsing "<em>*</em>" - Quantifier {x,y} following nothing."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>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?</p>