https://github.com/leta91/winter-is-coming-house-of-the-dragon

How to find characters with lazy matching
https://github.com/leta91/winter-is-coming-house-of-the-dragon

beginner-friendly fcc freecodecamp freecodecamp-challenge game-of-thrones gameofthrones got house-of-the-dragon houseofthedragon javascript js regular-expression regular-expressions winteriscoming

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How to find characters with lazy matching

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/leta91/winter-is-coming-house-of-the-dragon
• Owner: leta91
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-09-25T10:44:12.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-25T10:57:32.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-02T00:35:41.163Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: beginner-friendly, fcc, freecodecamp, freecodecamp-challenge, game-of-thrones, gameofthrones, got, house-of-the-dragon, houseofthedragon, javascript, js, regular-expression, regular-expressions, winteriscoming
• Language: JavaScript
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• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# 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 `
` and not the text `"
Winter is coming
"`


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 `>`