I’m trying to figure out how to capture some URL patterns with regular expression in Google Analytics, but I have not yet figured out how.
Here are some example URLs:
url1: myurl.com/dir1/dir2
url2: myurl.com/dir1/dir2?myparam=1
url3: myurl.com/dir2/dir2/anotherdir/
I would like to be able to capture the two first ones but not the last one and then the last one but not the two first ones.
I tried for example:
(myurl.com/dir1/dir2$|myurl.com/dir1/dir2?) -> I get url1 but not url2
myurl.com/dir1[^/] -> doesn’t work
myurl.com/dir1? -> doesn’t work
myurl.com/dir1/ -> capture url 3
So capturing url3 only is easy but I don’t see how to capture url1 and url2.
>Solution :
If I understand correctly, can’t you just use this for the first two:
myurl\.com\/dir1\/dir2($|\?.+)
And use this for the last:
myurl\.com\/dir2\/dir2\/.+
I noticed that you are not using any escape characters. You should escape reserved characters with backslash.
You can use https://regex101.com/ to get detailed explanation.