regex match first character code example

Example 1: match first word regex

Just use "^" to specify matching a pattern at the beginning of each line.
Example with grep:
grep "^pattern" file.txt

Example 2: regex find first instace

adding ".*?" To a answer makes it non greedy

running <h2)*?>

on

<h2 style="text-align: center;">heading</h2>

will return <h2 style="text-align: center;">