Why does the "?" have to come after the "*"?

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
I have already completed the challenge, however, only after I found that adding the “?” before the “*” was not an acceptable answer. Why is this? I feel like when I go on to create a project and I accidentally put the “?” first, I might not know how to debug it as I don’t understand why it must come first.

Your code so far


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

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Safari/537.36 Edg/100.0.1185.39

Challenge: Find Characters with Lazy Matching

Link to the challenge:

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? refers to lazy matching and should be before the closing character through which you want to match. Please read this post

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