Find Characters with Lazy Matching (freeCodeCamp Challenge)

Inspired by Game of Thrones, House of The Dragon sequel ❄️🔥

"Regular Expressions" ➡️ Chapter 3

Part of the JavaScript Certification ➡️ Lesson 14

In regular expressions there are 2 types of matches:

1. greedy match (by default) = it finds the longest possible part of a string that matches the regex pattern
2. lazy match = it finds the shortest possible part

Complete the Challenge:

Fix the regex /<.*>/ to return the HTML tag <h1> and not the text "<h1>Winter is coming</h1>"

Initially we have let myRegex = /<.*>/; that we have to change

let's analyze the solution /.h[0-9]*?>/

• wildcard . corresponds to any character
• [0-9] any number between 0 and 9 to follow the letter h
• ? corresponds to lazy matching that ends with this character >