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larry_he5
larry_he5
Level 2
April 19, 2015
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RegEx need to be supported in segmentation

  • April 19, 2015
  • 16 replies
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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
    richard_h1
    Level 3
    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
    benjamingaines2Adobe 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. 

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    thomas_løjmann2
    Level 2
    May 21, 2015

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

     

    /Løjmann

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    ecarpe15
    Level 3
    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.  

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    RandyFl1
    Level 2
    June 2, 2016
    Great idea.
    luekl
    luekl
    Level 3
    August 14, 2016

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

    ehrenmanu
    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.

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    mark_johnson3
    Level 2
    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

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    proletm
    Level 3
    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
    MichaelHarrison37
    Level 2
    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.

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