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larry_he5
April 19, 2015
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RegEx need to be supported in segmentation

  • April 19, 2015
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When I user segmentation and analytics report, I can't find an operator to support regular expression. The "match" operator only supports wildcard(*), that can't satisify too much  business.

The issue puzzles me a lot. The RegEx is so wildely used,  but why it not be used in adobe analytics(the segment in reports&analytics).

16 replies

richard_h1
April 19, 2015

It would be a big time saver to be able to use special charachters when building segments -for example the wildcard charachter: (*)

benjamingaines2
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
May 12, 2015

Thanks for submitting this. We will keep an eye on it for votes and comments, and I will follow up with our development team accordingly. 

May 21, 2015

Agree, this would be a very handy feature to have.

 

/Løjmann

May 21, 2015

You could always build a classfication with ReEx as  round about way of segmenting.  

 

Still would be handy to have in the segment builder.  

June 2, 2016
Great idea.
luekl
August 14, 2016

RegExp in Segments AND in Report Filters. One of the major things I miss in Adobe Analytics!

ehrenmanu
September 13, 2016

I support this idea wholeheartedly.  Being relatively new to using Adobe Analytics, I was really surprised this ability was not readily available unlike other digital analytics tools.  

 

Regex isn't difficult for beginners to learn and provides a multitude of ways to approach segments and report filters.

October 11, 2016

PLEASE PLEASE can you build this, it would greatly improve efficiency.

 

Use Case: I want to build a segment which groups popular holiday durations e.g. 3, 7, 14, 10 days etc, 

 

I can do this by doing multiple containers with or's inbetween, but lets say there is 20 of these, if there was a way to regex match using something like [3|7|14|10...] for example I could do this in a fraction of the time. Exists in workbench already. 

 

Unfortunately the 'contains any of' won't work here because putting '3, 7 14 10' also brings in 30, 33, 13 etc. 

 

Can I add to this though that it would be good to have regex across the product, in filters, build of metrics, workspace etc, anywhere you have a equals/matches type use it should also be there. 

 

Ben - I know you usually respond to these, could you advise where it is on the roadmap please. 

 

Thanks

Mark

December 9, 2016

Want to add another strong vote for this! I am trying to create a segment with 200 values it will be so easy to create this as a regex instead of standard interface!

 

I am very surprised that this was not a feature to begin with really a big miss!

 

Thanks!

MichaelHarrison37
May 16, 2017

Absolutely agree with this. Google Analytics has had regex since the beginning, and it makes filtering results very powerful and very easy.