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joecool1029 · 2016-11-01 22:10:30+00:00

Sorry, none of us could figure out how to escape the asterisks, how'd you do it? Feel like I'm trying to triforce here.

schoen | karma 20422 | avg karma 3.65 · | 2016-05-31 16:40:03+00:00

Edit: I had a guess about how to escape asterisks here, and it didn't work!

warent | karma 10770 | avg karma 5.74 · | 2017-11-29 05:43:45+00:00

I'm confused, why do you have to escape an asterisk?

euroclydon | karma 3708 | avg karma 2.27 · | 2010-03-17 11:19:48

btw, how did you escape that asterisk in quotes?

jwilk | karma 8094 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2017-11-08 11:28:33+00:00

AFAIK there's no way to escape asterisks on HN. Backslashes certainly don't work. :(

pessimizer | karma 33733 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2022-10-28 08:07:05

You can escape asterisks on HN with \.

bjeanes | karma 280 | avg karma 1.66 · | 2022-12-06 17:15:00

I just preceded the asterisks with a backslash.

katamole | karma 67 | avg karma 1.46 · | 2009-02-24 04:28:36

Use asterisks instead :)

rplevy | karma 229 | avg karma 2.12 · | 2008-07-08 20:43:28

I second this, I can't find any way to display an asterisk.

dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2015-06-23 21:07:27+00:00

Just don't ask me how to get a literal asterisk in there.

Sharlin | karma 15457 | avg karma 3.55 · | 2018-05-28 08:06:50

> EDIT: How do you type asterisks here? Escaping with a backslash doesn't work, nor does using three in a row

You can't, if you want to use more than one in the same comment. A workaround is to use a similar glyph such as UNICODE SMALL ASTERISK ?.

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piyush_soni | karma 2259 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2014-04-13 23:45:39+00:00

I tried the HTML code for asterisk before 'nix': * but it seems it doesn't process them. Too bad, might be a bug.

ramses0 | karma 1283 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2022-02-17 15:43:26

I just see asterisks?

tikhonj | karma 15065 | avg karma 5.2 · | 2012-01-30 23:26:15+00:00

Ah, thanks. That was probably the issue, because some of my asterisks worked but others didn't. I'll keep it in mind for the future.

mikorym | karma 1675 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2019-11-01 12:31:27+00:00

Wow, forgot about the \asterisk being a reserved character.

skrebbel | karma 32746 | avg karma 5.58 · | 2022-04-12 08:12:53

I did not know you could backslash-escape asterisks (TIL! thanks!), so I prepended it with 4 spaces to make a code block.

klyrs | karma 20410 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2021-12-11 19:37:30

At least use a backslash... escape the asterisk and you get sh*t not sht sht.

gjm11 | karma 13505 | avg karma 4.09 · | 2009-08-21 20:47:06+00:00

oh, bother, I forgot what HN does to asterisks. In what I wrote above, look for the bit in italics and mentally insert asterisks on each side of it. It was right when I typed it in, I promise...

saagarjha | karma 56017 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2020-05-02 02:06:44+00:00

I’ve had luck with not putting something directly after the asterisk.

vxNsr | karma 4947 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2021-05-06 23:39:03

I think he’s trying to escape the asterisk but doesn’t realize that’s not required as long as there isn’t another one following it.