Comments on: Getting More than One Requirement out of your GA Report Filter

By: Ophir Cohen

Ophir Cohen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:44:55 +0000

Oh, this one is a real beauty. Of course now with custom segments we can also do this from other directions - but still…fantastic.

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By: Aaron King

Aaron King — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:52:38 +0000

John,

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Great work dude!

Aaron

By: John

John — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:13:18 +0000

Eamonn,

^eve$ should give you what you want.

By: Eamonn

Eamonn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:39:59 +0000

Thanks John,

(?=.*\beve\b) matches “eve” but I would get results like “adam and eve”

I’m trying to find the code such that only [eve] is returned. (an exact match with no other terms)

By: John

John — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:46:02 +0000

Eamonn,

^(?=.*(adam|eve)).*$ I think this would be correct for what you want. So if you wanted everything that had “garden” “serpent” and either “adam” or “eve” then ^(?=.*(adam|eve))(?=.*garden)(?=serpent).*$

For anywhere you want an exact match, use (?=.*\beve\b) this would match “eve” but not “evening” and not “eve1″ (it would also match “+eve+”) As long as the letters “eve” are not surrounded by letters or numbers

-John

By: Eamonn Mc Greevy

Eamonn Mc Greevy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:05:26 +0000

But how could the search be refined to an exact keyword match as opposed to broad match?

By: Eamonn Mc Grevy

Eamonn Mc Grevy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:18:03 +0000

Very many thanks for this info. I couldn’t get it to work at first because I left a space after ^.

Also, looks like we could expand this easily to include searches for say “adam” OR “eve” by using the pipe operator, eg ^(?=.*adam|eve).*$, right?

By: Ben Krull

Ben Krull — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:48:27 +0000

Brilliant! I think I could spend a whole lifetime and never fully understand regular expressions. Thanks

By: Robbin

Robbin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:02:07 +0000

Daniel - I don’t get any credit. Well ok, I get a little bit. For the new year, I took our whole staff out and said, “Let’s toast to me, because I was smart enough to hire you. ”

This was written by John Henson. He is a senior web analyst here at LunaMetrics, and I will remind him to put his name on his posts.