Question on regular expression for filters on GA

[BritishCouncil]

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

[BritishCouncil]

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

[john4math]

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.