Comments on: Regular Expressions for GA, Bonus III: Lookahead

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By: Mark C

Mark C — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:39:48 +0000

Rick, I wish I knew. It seems negative lookahead is the most desired function (isn’t stripping stuff _out_ of a report the best way to focus your analytics activity?) and there is a strange silence on it from GA…

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:31:39 +0000

what are the other options to negative lookaheads? I need filter out any URL without one particular subdomain in it. The goal is achievable from everywhere on my site apart from one subdomain so I really need this ???

By: Robbin

Robbin — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:33:51 +0000

Yup, thinkerati, you are right. But it was supported way back when this was written…

By: Thinkerati

Thinkerati — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:08:03 +0000

Negative lookahead is no longer supported in Google Analytics from 2009 onwards, sadly.

By: hugh gage

hugh gage — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:49:04 +0000

I have tried thested this in the top content report filter (where I test all regex against live data before setting up funnels) and all I get is a message telling me “there was an error fetching data for this view”

By: DarrenJames

DarrenJames — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:26:07 +0000

Now that looknegative lookaheads in GA are no longer available, is there any workarounds for this?

By: Open SEO

Open SEO — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:14:30 +0000

Nice example very clear.
However, Google Analytics team confirmed that they dropped support for negative lookahead in GA; because of some security risk they say.

By: Problemi con i funnel di navigazione di Google Analytics

Problemi con i funnel di navigazione di Google Analytics — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:09:14 +0000

[...] regolari avanzate con asserzioni negative che “guardano avanti”, proponendo anche un link di approfondimento. In realtà penso che nella maggior parte dei casi si possa ricorrere ad espressioni meno avanzate [...]

By: Online Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » Funnel Problems in Google Analytics

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:54:09 +0000

[...] can avoid problems with a step matching subsequent steps by using regular expression that have negative lookaheads to exclude the later [...]