Searching for wildcard characters as literals

The wildcard characters listed above are interpreted as wildcard characters, not literal characters, unless they are delimited by a backslash (\). If you want a wildcard character to be interpreted as a literal in a wildcard string, you must precede the character with a backslash. For example, to match the literal asterisk (*) in a wildcard string, you delimit the character as follows:

<WILDCARD> a\*