How can I search custom fields contains "A" character?

Swift Liao_h5mtn2

I found an interesting thing in JQL contains (~) search.

Let's say, I have a custom field called CRank. It is a text field.

Users may input A, A+, A-, B .... E .... into the text field.

I found we can search the issue contains B or C or ... ( CRank ~ C)

But, we got no result if we want to search for A (CRRank ~A)

 

I know I can change this field type to picklist but this will be a long list.

Just wondering if anyone experience this before?

 

Thanks

 

Payne

A is likely a stopword (a word that is not indexed) in the Lucene index, due to its common usage as an article (a, an, the). The stopword list can be modified, but I'd be hesitant to do so unless you really need this functionality. https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-remove-stop-words-in-jira-s-lucene-indexing-836111705.html