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Wildcards are powerful tools. Mach5 Analyzer lets you use them in a variety of places, including when indicating which files to track and analyze. There are two wildcards, the "*" character and the "?" character. If you have used MS-DOS or LINUX, you are probably familiar with these wildcards. Analyzer's wildcards behave moe like LINUX wildcards in that you can use several of them if necessary, and anywhere you like in your match string or filename
The "*" wildcard will match zero, one, or more than one characters. For example, the wildcard "/k*" will match "/k", "/ki", and "/kimmy". The "?" wildcard will match only zero or one characters. For example, "file?.zip" will match "file.zip", "file1.zip", "file2.zip", but will not match "file12.zip".
You can use them in the beginning, middle, or end of a path or string. For example, filtering for requested files that match "*download.html" will include "/place1/download.html" and "another/place2/download.html" as well.
You can use several of them. For example, filtering for referrers from "*google*?promo=mach5*" will match "google.com.au/?promo=mach5-analyzer" as well as "google.com?promo=mach5-mailer".
Many reports use a dash (-) to represent an empty value. You can also filter for this value if that is how the empty value shows up in Analyzer reports. For example, to filter for unauthenticated users, put in an include filter for "-" to include only the log lines with no authenticated user.
Advanced Tip: Mach5 Analyzer does not support full general regular expression matches.