escaping * in korn shell

Shell Programming and Scripting
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When trying to escape special character * - it doesn't seem to work. In korn shell trying to store a local variable as follows
sample=test*
echo $sample - gets all the file names starting with test* , instead i want to literally store the value test* into a variable. I tried escaping with \, with single quotes, with double quotes - nothing helped. I am in Sun Solaris OS
Please provide suggestions
Greatly appreciate it.
Thanks

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sample='test*'
echo "${sample}"

3

you can also turn globbing off.

set -f
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Thanks for both of your reply.
Both worked.

Thank you very much