`regex{n,}?` == `regex{n}`?

Question

-edit- NOTE the ? at the end of .{2,}?

I found out you can write

.{2,}?

Isnt that exactly the same as bel

Answer 1

In isolation they probably behave identical but not inside larger expressions because the lazy version is allowed to match more than two symbols.

             abx        abcx

^.{2,}?x$    match      match
^.{2}x$      match      no match