escape wildcard in matchpattern

[denisT]

say i have a string with a * in it, something like "something * blah" and I want to match it exactly, could I do it with matchpattern by escaping the wildcard * to be an exact match?

for example:
-- want this to be true
matchpattern "something * blah" pattern:"something * blah"
-- do NOT want this to be true
matchpattern "something 12345 blah" pattern:"something * blah" something like toLower a == toLower b would probably work in this case but the string i'm trying to match might be in the middle of a string. I could use regular expressions but i think this might be quicker to write, also i'm interested if it's possible.
do use the regular expressions, it's exactly the case

[lo]

this is a somewhat legitimate workaround without regex
matchpattern (substituteString "something * blah" "*" "#") pattern:"something # blah"

unless of course the original string is "something # blah", in which case you will get a false positive.

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