Regex Lazy Matching

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

how the result comes “h1” instead of only “h” ?

Your code so far


let text = "<h1>Winter is coming</h1>";
let myRegex = /<.*?>/; // Change this line
let result = text.match(myRegex);

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Challenge: Find Characters with Lazy Matching

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Hey!
For /<.*?>/ regex:
. matches any character (except for line terminators)

*? matches the previous token between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy)

That’s why it’ll return h1 instead of just h

I use this website to write regex :smiley: https://regex101.com/

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thank you, I got it.

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