Regular Expressions - Find Characters with Lazy Matching

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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
This is just for my understanding. Can someone tell me why the ‘?’ has to be located where it is in this challenge?

Why does this: let myRegex = /<.?>/; work
and this: let myRegex = /<.>?/; does not work

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: Regular Expressions - Find Characters with Lazy Matching

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