Question on regular expression for filters on GA
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Hi guys, I am creating profiles on some of the countries sites in my network, and have managed to establish the filter for tracking certain url patterns, for example:
^/japan-english- is tracking all my urls in the Japan site that start by japan-english great! however, it is not tracking the japanese instance of the urls. The pattern for the latter is :
www.mysite.org/jp/japan-english
I could then modify the filter to track the jp subfolder like this:
^/jp/japan-english-
but it will then only track the urls on the /jp/ subfolder
does anyone know the regex command for tracking the two url patters as follows:
/jp/japan-english-
&
/japan-english-
thanks in advance
david
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Hi John, thanks a lot for your reply... what I am actually after is two patterns rather than two url instances., eg:
/japan-english-* meaning all urls that follow that pattern
/en/japan-english-* meaning all urls (in English) that follow that pattern
so I have now got this on my filter pattern: /japan-english-
I hope it'll work both for the urls in English and in Japanese, I will post the results here,
cheers
david
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The ^ character makes it so your expression only matches the beginning of the request URIs. If you remove it, all URLs with /japan-english will get picked up. That sounds like it should work for you.
If you really just want those two instances, you can include both and separate them with a | which acts as "or" in regular expressions.
There's a nice guide for using regular expressions in GA at http://www.ppchero.com/analytics-regular-expression-characters/ if you want to read more about them.
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