JIRA automation, and a working example of the Split function for smart values

Bill Sheboy

Greetings, community!

Who has a working example of using the Split function accessing the values in the result array?

I am able to split things, and I even figured out how to work around non-splitting characters.  (For example, replace periods with another character prior to split.)

But, when accessing the values, the results are consistently:

• {{field.split("x")}}    Returns the array correctly.
• {{field.split("x").first}}    Returns the first element of the array correctly.
• {{field.split("x").second}}    Returns an empty value. Same for other numbers.
• Dereferencing the array with [n] notation does not appear to work either.

 

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Bill Sheboy

Hi, community!

After a comment from an Atlassian developer on another question, it appears the problem is the documentation for text functions, not the split() function itself.  The gap may have been caused when the information was ported over after Atlassian acquired the automation product.  Who knows...

Split produces a list, and lists are not accessed as .first, .second, etc. as described in the doc.  Instead, they use function returns (note the parenthesis) and numerical, not literal indexing:

.first()

.last()

.get(n)  where n is the 0-based index for the array.

Please see here for more details on list access:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-lists/