Robots.txt allow directory root while disallowing all deeper URLs

Question

I would like to allow a path and disallow everything else in the directory.

User-Agent: *
Allow: /example/
Disallow: /example/*

Will this work? If not what would be a better way of doing this?

Answer 1

I actually found this helpful.

https://moz.com/community/q/robots-txt-how-to-exclude-sub-directories-correctly

User-Agent: *
allow: /example/$
disallow: /example/*