Regular Expression Help

From	Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Regular Expression Help
Date	2012-10-07 21:20 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<k4tkan$ea$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I have two possible values I need to match as the same.

Name/11 (This one is pulled from the source DB)
Name/11* (This is what I need to match to with or without the (*))

The pattern base name is pulled from a DB so I need to find a way to do 
this pragmatically.

Now some of the names have a forward slash / so I am using hash mark # 
as a delimiter.

I was able to find the "Name/11" using

#^Name/11#

or more specifically;

$value = "Name/11";
$pattern = "#^" . $value . "#";

But as for the (*), no glory.
I originally tried

#^Name/11?*#
#^Name/11\*#
#^Name/11.*#

It must be obvious I am having issues finding a way to escape the (*) 
and am not very versed with regex.

Can someone please explain the best way to escape an optional (*) from a 
string.  Or even point me to a good source.

I used http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html but was unable 
to find how to handle the star.

And if you bing up the *, it sort of gets ignored.

Thanks

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Regular Expression Help Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-10-07 21:20 -0700
  Re: Regular Expression Help Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-08 03:03 -0700
  Re: Regular Expression Help Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-10-08 12:49 +0000
  Re: Regular Expression Help Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-10-08 12:59 +0000
  Re: Regular Expression Help BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2012-10-08 13:39 -0400
  Re: Regular Expression Help "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-10-09 12:29 +0200
  Re: Regular Expression Help Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-10-10 03:38 -0700

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