## Lazy matching:

As we have seen, the default nature of quantifiers is greedy, so it will match as many characters as possible.

To make it lazy, we use `?` quantifier, which turns the regex engine to match as less characters as possible which satisfies the expression.

Below is a table showing lazy version of all quantifiers:

Quantifier | Lazy version
{n,m} | {n,m}?
{n,} | {n,}?
+ | +?
* | *?
? | ??

So, now we can match html tags as below:

Problem

1. Find an expression to match `href="url"` in html file. Note that url can be anything, like `https://xyz.com`, `http://abc.io/app`, `https://cde.org`.

   Answer: `href=".*?"`

2. What will be the match for expression `\w+? \w+?` in `abc cde, 123 456`.
   Answer: `123 4` and `abc d`

We will see how to extract things(like, urls) from the text using regex, in the "group and capturing" concept.