* Escaping a character in a regular expression
When trying to match a string that contains a ``*`` character,
- like int the pointer type ``int*``, one must be careful to
- notice that the character ``*`` is a special character in the
- extended POSIX regular expression syntax. And that character
- must be escaped for the regular expression engine. Thus the
- regular expression that would match the string ``int*`` in a
- suppression file should be ::
+ like in the pointer type ``int*``, one must be careful to notice
+ that the character ``*`` is a special character in the extended
+ POSIX regular expression syntax. And that character must be
+ escaped for the regular expression engine. Thus the regular
+ expression that would match the string ``int*`` in a suppression
+ file should be ::
int\\*