Having asterisk above and not inline in code listings

Question

I want to writing code listings with asterisk in-line not above line.
That is something like this:

But when I tried this:
documentclass{article}
usepackage{listings}
begin{document}
begin{lstlisting}
*i
end{lstlisting}
end{document}

I ended up getting this:

How do I fix this?

Michael Solotky · Answer

Try to make it in math mode ${}^{*}$ i. If you also need the asterisk to be tight to the letter i consider negative spaces.

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