Regex to match 2 level deep URL and not 3 level deep (Google Analytics)

Question

I'm trying to create content groups in Google Analytics. How do I match a page with sport/[SOMETHING] and not sport/[SOMETHING]/[SOMETHING]

Match:

• /sport/football
• /sport/mens-basketball
• /sport/baseball

Do not Match:

• /sport/mens-basketball/standings
• /sport/football/standings
• /sport/football/scores

Answer 1

We can say "not the following characters" using [^...] the ^ stands for "not". So to restrict the levels we can use [^/] .

Here some examples:

Match /sport/something : ^/sport/[^/]+$

Has to start with / and then exactly 1 / has to follow: ^/[^/]+/[^/]+$ or ^(/[^/]+){2}$

Generalized for start with / and followed by 4 / at most: ^(/[^/]+){1,5}$

Answer 2

This worked for me ^\\/sports\\/([^\\/]+)\\/$

Explanation: ^/sports/ => category to match with / escaped using \\

([^/]+) => the not / once or more

/$ => the closing first level page depth / with a $ stop