title: Regex with wildcard search?
body: <p>I created a Regex to check a string for the following situation:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>first 4 chars are numbers</li>
  <li>following by a point</li>
  <li>following by 3 numbers</li>
  <li>following by a point</li>
  <li>following by 4 to 8 numbers or letters</li>
  </ul>
  <p>ie: <code>1234.123.125B</code></p>
  <p>My Regex: <code>^[0-9]{4}[.][0-9]{3}[.][0-9a-zA-Z]{4,8}$</code></p>
  <p>But now I need a wildcard search: The Regex should also match if there is a '*' after the first 8 characters. For example:</p>
  <pre><code>1234.123.12*   MATCH
  1234.123*      MATCH
  1234.123.45B9* MATCH
  1234.12*       NO MATCH
  1234.12345*    NO MATCH
  </code></pre>
  <p>How can I add the wildcard search to my Regex?
  Thank you</p>