title: Combining similar URLs in Google Analytics
body: <p>I have various articles that come in different format types (ex: pdf, html). I'd like to create a filter in my Google Analytics account that will simply take off file types at the end of the article URLs and then combine the same article URLs together, so that I would be able to view the total pageviews for that article from all of its forms. For example, I have several articles, and they may be listed like so:</p>
  
  <p>/site/42/5/1234.html</p>
  
  <p>/site/28/12/5555.pdf</p>
  
  <p>/site/42/5/1234</p>
  
  <p>/site/42/5/1234.pdf</p>
  
  <p>/site/28/12/5555</p>
  
  <p>What I would like to do is combine the pageviews for all of the same articles -- so in this example, the pageviews would be combined into just two URLs: (site/42/5/1234 and /site/28/12/5555.</p>
  
  <p>How would you suggest creating a filter that would do such a task?</p>