How to use regex to define page groups in your mapping

Mappings is available for Contentsquare Enterprise plans

What is Regex?

Regular Expressions are a code based on punctuation signs to describe a chain of characters according to specific conditions.

For instance, the "." looks for any character. If you write "website.", the dot will bring you "websites", "websitez", "website4", etc.

Using Regex

Regex can be used in Contentsquare to define group pages for mappings or for segment conditions.

Regex use punctuation signs:

“.” means you’re looking for one character
“..” means you’re looking for two characters
“*” means you’re looking for the precedent token once, several times or 0 time
“+” means you’re looking for at least one character, or more
“?” means you’re looking for one OR two undefined characters, not more
"/" neutralizes the regex meaning of any punctation above. If you're looking for real punctuation in the URLs, then you must backlash it. For instance, If you’re looking for a “?”, type “\?” in your regex.

Typeaword.

"Typeaword" + one character only, any character

Typeaword..

"Typeaword" + two characters, any character

Typeaword.*

"Typeaword" + any character (.) 0, 1 or several times (*)

For instance: w*\.go+gle\.com www.ggle.com will find:

Scenario: Defining product pages in my mapping

If all my product pages are structured this way:

_P + sequence of numbers
https://www.mysite.com/fragrance-beauty/makeup_P0171900C49332

Then, the regex to use will be :
/([0-9a-zA-Z\-]*)_P([0-9]+)(.*)

Conditions & characters	Supported number
Regex conditions per page group	Up to 32
Characters in text fields	Up to 255
Special characters on Regex conditions field	up to 5 " + " or *" " characters up to 15 " \| "** characters

A condition is composed of: a condition type (path, host, query) + an operator (matches regex or does not match regex) + a regex value