jql results with capitalized field

[Rafel Coyle]

I want to return the results where all of the description fields contain upper case "EMV"  so the data might have been entered in upper case or lower case, but I need all records containing this sub string.

[Tom Lister]

Hi @Rafel Coyle

Jira uses Lucene for text searching and it is case sensitive.

You need to CONTAINS(~) operator

e.g.

Description ~ “EMV”

[Rafel Coyle]

My question is for the situation where the database contains upper or lower case characters and I need to convert the data field to upper case for comparison.  So if the database contains Cat or cat I want to compare to CAT and get a match.

[Tom Lister]

Hi

the Jira lucene index searching is case sensitive and there is no way around that AFAIK

but you could try

description ~ “Cat” || “cat” || “CAT”

cumbersome but should work

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver072/search-syntax-for-text-fields-829092675.html