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nemja
nemja

Reputation: 499

GA does not support RegEx

I am using the following RegEx (check on different RegEx checkers online, on which it works): 

^((?!pro).)*$

However, GA gives me an error: Invalid regular expression Your data request includes an invalid regular expression.

The line I am trying to exclude is: xx-pro-xxx-xxx

I have read through the documentation Google provides, but cannot seem to find why it is not working.

Does anybody know what the problem is and how to solve it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 57

Answers (1)

mrzasa
mrzasa

Reputation: 23327

GA doesn't seem to support lookeheads ((?!...)), so you can't use that regex. Maybe there is a way to use .{2}-pro-.{3}-.{2} in a negative condition, i.e. "don't use strings that match this pattern"?

General advice - every regex engine is different and supports different set of operators. It's not enough to check regex on other engines

Upvotes: 1

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