Why don’t you try

set(?!.*get)

That says, match the expression if it includes set, as long as it is not followed somewhere down the line by get. You can make it more specific if you need to, but that would be the guts of the negative match.

Ex: I have data like this….

1. tf_PADD1.setText(tf_ADD1.getText());
2. tf_PADD2.setText(tf_ADD2.setText());
3. tf_PCITY.setText(tf_CITY.getText());
4. cm_PDISTRICT.setSelectedItem(cm_DISTRICT.getSelectedItem());
5. tf_PPINCODE.setText(tf_PINCODE.setText());

in that above text I want to select lines which do not have the combination of setText and GetText(Targeted result 2&5 lines), for that I wrote an expression but that expression selects 1,2,3,5 line in that above text. First I thought I got understand this concept now I am in confusion, exactly what is the use of negativeahead(?!….)
I thought This expression is for not negating a word, So if it selects 1st word before getText then wht is the use?

My Expression is:
(?!getText)tf_.*setText

I am learning, how to negate a word.
So please help me, I am very eager to know where I am doing worng…………..

Do you know how can I resolve this in order to Urchin consider just the 4 first directories and sum the rests? For example, in this case, I would like Urchin to consider every access to after 4 sub-directories:www.mysite.com.br/section/module/page/pagename to a pageview of the pagename.

I had presumed that you can concatenate letters inside the square brackets for form strings. Clearly not, here is a case where I mourn the lack of programmers manual. (I’ve used reg exs before in perl, documentation is a tad richer etc).

Anyways, many thanks,

Des

Tricky. Very tricky. In that it requires use of an advanced RegEx that most people really don’t need, use or understand.

1st off: view\.php\?type=[^(misc)]
won’t do what you want. The use of the square brackets is for a grouping of characters in any order.
ie your RegEx will match anything without the letters ‘i’ or ’s’ or ‘c’ or ‘m’ or ‘)’ or ‘(’ as the first character after the “type=”.
eg. view.php?type=) or …type=m and so on. Being the ones that won’t match.

The Quick answer is:

view\.php\?type=(?!misc)

BUT!!!! And it’s a big but. I have no idea if GA can actually understand that construct (”negative lookahead” if you’re interested).
Suggest creating a test profile, use that as the only filter and see if you can make it trip or not by hitting your website.

In essence, this says we have a successful match if we DON’T have a ‘misc’ following the “…type=”
The use of brackets is… special/different in this situation. Be. Ware.

Robbin, if you want to chase me on this, I can take you through in more detail. But, I almost *never* use this construct. It’s useful, but can be very confusing to use.
Cheers!

view\.php\?type=[^(misc)]

Match all urls of the form view.php?type=Anything, except for this one…
view.php?type=misc

This is a great series of posts by the way, thanks for it

Des