RegEx all URLs that do NOT contain a string

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I seem to be having a bit of a brain fart atm. I've got Google counting my transitions correctly but I'm getting false positives.

This is the current goal RegEx which works great.

^/click/[0-9]+\.html\?.*

But I also want it the RegEx to NOT county anything that has &confirm=1 I'm quite stuck as to how to do that in the RegEx, I thought I might be able to use [^(?:&confirm=1)] but I don't think that's valid.

Note that `[]` specifies a character class, and `^` negates the class, so `[^(?:&confirm=1)]` is actually looking for any character which is not one of `(?:&confirm=1)`. — Michael Mior, Dec 30 '12 at 03:32

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '16 at 12:42

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Use "exclude", not "include" filter option

answered Apr 19 '16 at 12:42

sneakyfildy

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Tried to upvote this answer now, apparently I already did so 2 years ago. – Lulu Apr 29 '21 at 11:28

Bohemian · Answer 2 · 2012-12-30T02:54:22.853

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Try this:

^/click/[0-9]+\.html\?(?!.*\bconfirm=1).*

I changed it slightly so it will still exclude if confirm=1 is the first param (preceded by the ? rather than &)

edited Dec 30 '12 at 02:54

answered Dec 30 '12 at 02:32

Bohemian

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 31 '12 at 19:01

I'm afraid you can't... I've tried doing this before, what I found was that you used to be able to do this with negative lookahead (see Rubens), but Google Analytics stopped supporting this at some point (source: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/3YnwXM0WYxE).

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 17 '16 at 13:21

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Maybe I'm a little late.

What about just writing :

[^(&confirm=1)]

?

answered Nov 17 '16 at 13:21

TomVerdier

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That will match all characters which are not in the set `()&=confirm1` – AnnanFay Dec 16 '18 at 18:43

RegEx all URLs that do NOT contain a string

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