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title: Find Characters with Lazy Matching
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# Find Characters with Lazy Matching
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## Problem Explanation
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Fix the regex `/<.*>/` to return the HTML tag `<h1>` and not the text `<h1>Winter is coming</h1>` . Remember the wildcard . in a regular expression matches any character.
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## Solutions
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```js
let text = "< h1 > Winter is coming< / h1 > ";
let myRegex = /< h1 > ?/; // it's the answer!
let result = text.match(myRegex);
```
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