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Regex Help

Learn some of the basics of Regex and how to use it to target dynamic URLs.

Updated at June 27th, 2024

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                    Common Regex Patterns

                    Common Regex Patterns

                    Here is a little cheat sheet on a few common regex patterns

                    The most common regex pattern you will probably want is simply:

                    .+
                    

                    The "." is the wildcard match, and the "+" means "match the previous item one or more times. Thus, ".+" means "match one or more of any character." So, the following pattern would work to match anything (say, a user's individual dashboard page) in a url:

                    /users/.+/dashboard
                    

                    Note: while * is used as a wildcard inside flows and matches text the same as .+, it does not have the same use in Regex. When wanting a wildcard with Regex, you'll want to use .+ instead.

                    Here are some other common regular expressions that come in handy when using regex to target specific pages within Appcues:

                    • Any number: [0-9]+
                    • Either of two values: (Option1|Option2)
                    • Any word: [a-z]+

                    For even more help with Regex, check out this cheat sheet and this Regex tester.

                    help regex matches regex

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