KMP Algorithm supporting * notation

Hi,

Is it possible to extend the KMP algorithm to support * in patterns?
Like

ab*cd

and * can be any character but cannot be nothing.

The problem is that when I am looking at the character with index i in
the text, if it is not a match, I don't want to look at the previous
characters of the text (just like KMP).

Is this possible?

.

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