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I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

As much of the West prepares for a hot, dry Fourth of July weekend, some of the area’s U.S. Forest Service (USFS) managers have advised patriotic revelers to find alternatives to personal fireworks to ...

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Google Analytics 4 now supports creating and/or modifying events using regular expressions, regex. This can help you migrate destinations and event goals from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 ...

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