text search with ? is showing incorrect results

[llagos]

Hi.. I'm testing some JQL and got the following problem. I'm searching with "q?e" which should find entire words that have 3 consecutive letters... a "q", then any one letter (just one), then an "e". However, it's NOT working (as I understand it), since it's showing results for "q.....e....", i mean, q, then a lot of letter (more than 1, included whitespaces)...

So, it this JQL wrong, or am I?

Thanks

[Angélica Luz · Accepted solution]

Hello @llagos,

Thank you for reaching out to Atlassian Community!

Testing on my local site and also checking the documentation, the “?” doesn’t seem to be supported in Cloud. 

It’s possible to search for tickets that contain some words and use “*”, but it’s not possible to search part of the word and add “?” to replace a single character.

• Advanced search reference - JQL operators
• Search syntax for text fields

Unsupported term searches:

A single character search ( ? ) will automatically convert to a wildcard search ( * ) at the end of the term.

• Advanced search reference - JQL keywords
• Advanced search reference - JQL functions

Hope this helps!

If you have any other questions regarding this matter, please let us know.

Kind regards,
Angélica