Lazy vs Greedy regex not explained

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Hey,

First of all, nice workshopper! It is really concise and straight forward!
The only thing that is not explained well imo, is greedy vs lazy expressions.

Exercise 13: Quotes

Here you hint at the problem and solve it by having a negative group ( [^"]* ).
Maybe a little paragraph explaining the default greedy nature of regular expressions would be nice!
(dont give away the solution, just explain that a regex will try to match as many characters as it can!)

Exercise 14: Blink

In this exercise, you should explain there is a way to make regular expressions lazy and match as few characters as possible! (+?, *?, ??)
The only way I was able to solve this problem, is because I know regular expressions from other languages (and use vim as my main editor.. 🤡). I knew this behaviour and googled how to achieve it in JS, but people who are less familiar with regex might not know this!

Anyway, I really liked this course and it was a good refresher on regular expressions and how they work/behave in JS!

Thanks a lot for your effort!