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Find Characters with Lazy Matching

Find Characters with Lazy Matching

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Problem Explanation

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

Solution 1 (Click to Show/Hide)

let text = "<h1>Winter is coming</h1>";
let myRegex = /<h1>?/; // it's the answer!
let result = text.match(myRegex);