I'm trying to strip UTM parameters from links, so I'm using regex to try to remove the ? from the URL and anything after.
My regex: \?.*
But instead of filtering out the string, the parser is only keeping things that match. How do I reverse it so it's filtering it the other way?
(In this example, there is only one string with UTM params, so it's only matching one record.)
try this way: .+?(?=/?)
Hi, you can try:
^[^?]*
That one did it, thank you!
I don't have a huge handle on regex (and mostly getting by with a little help from ChatGPT), but I understand what this is doing compared to mine. I guess my question going forward is... should I have expected my original syntax to work, or does Web Scraper just parse things in a different way?
Hey, no shame in using chatGPT, that's how I did it 
My prompt: regex to match string until the first occurrence of ?
Your original regex matched the string after the '?' and Parser returns the matched part .
This is the expected behavior for regex, and it is a "match" or "find" operation. So you should think in terms of what you want to match, and not what you need to remove. That is why JanAp's regex works. Personally I would go with something like the one below which would match only URLs:
^http[^?]+