Regex - Use /* in JS without getting my code in comment

Question

I need to do some split, like this:

$(element).split(/*(.+)?/)[1]);

But those /* characters, make my code be as a comment. How can I use it & avoid from this to happen ?

Answer 1

Escape the * character to match it literally. It means something within a regex. It means the previous token is matched 0 or more times.

/\*

The regex should be:

/\*(.+)?/

Answer 2

You could just add an expression to the start that doesn't make a difference:

/.{0,}*(.+)?/