This is really helpful.

Thanks a lot
Ivan

Turns out I made a mistake. It works fine, probably stared at this too long at once. Even more thanks now!

However... the headaches are starting again now I want to use it in Datastudio. I've changed the regex to match datastudio's regex version (Google RE2). However, the regex doesn't exclude url strings with more than 3 directories. It now works as a minimum of 3 directories. I'd like to exclude url strings with 4 or more directories, so I only have the url strings with 3 directories.

Do you happen to have an idea how to do this in Google RE2 for Datastudio?

Thanks for your help! 🙂

I'm not sure I totally understand your question, but GA doesn't support negative lookahead regex, so in general you need to choose simple conditions that include the text you want, and exclude the text you don't. So in your example, a regex condition of "/category/" would naturally exclude "/subcategory-2/" since the string doesn't include "-2" in it.

Thank you for sharing! Though, your regex will only work for the specific case where the URL ends with some known string (like your '.aspx' example). If you want something a little more generalizable I think you could use this to match no directories: ^/[^/]+[a-zA-Z0-9]$

This worked - and I'm kicking myself for not seeing it. Thank you!!

Hey AF, sure, you can use .* as a wildcard.

So if you want to match on /abc/ and /123, you'd use the following expression: /abc/.*123

(I left the slash off the 123 so the regex will work even if it's immediately following /abc/.You can test it in your All Pages report to make sure it pulls in the URLs you're looking for.)