Only the “matches” conditions support operators & wildcards. But both operators & wildcards are applied to the word-based search index, not to e.g. complete & raw URLs. The easiest setup might be to use these conditions instead:
Thanks for your reply.
Does that mean the URL is split on the slashes into words? That comes as a surprise.
Though helping me to understand, that would still return too much documents, as there are 3 different types of magazines from that server. They share the beginning //epaper.heise.de/download/archiv/, but differ in the first 2 characters of the filename:
Indexing splits text always into words and this information is used by the “matches” condition supporting boolean operators & wildcards. Only the is/begins/ends/contains (not) conditions use the raw text.
You could add another condition like…
URL contains “/ct.”
Alternatively the following condition should be able to replace all these conditions:
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