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.