Regular Expressions - Find Characters with Lazy Matching

Programming JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

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Your code so far

let text = "<h1>Winter is coming</h1>";
let myRegex = /<[a-z0-9]*?>/; // Change this line
let result = text.match(myRegex);

According to my little thinking and understanding of the regular expressions the [a-z0-9]* will omit the all the alphabets and numeric in the HTML tag preventing h1 between the <> from being executed or outputted on the console giving the same alternative solution to the problem…suggestions are highly welcomed feel free to correct my approach of the solution

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Challenge Information:

Regular Expressions - Find Characters with Lazy Matching

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It’s the exact opposite. It will match the opening angle bracket and then any characters that match either a-z or 0-9, which h1 will definitely match, and then it will match the closing > bracket. So you don’t really need the ? after it to match the the opening <h1> tag in the string. But that sort of defeats the purpose of the challenge which is to use ? in the expression.

To pass this, you don’t want to change the .* in the original expression. The only thing you want to do is add a ? so that the expression limits itself to just matching the opening <h1>.