Most of our tickets is grouped inside square bracket like [BE], [FE], etc. How can I search subtasks starting with those words? I've tried: * text ~ "\\[BE\\]" (empty result) * text ~ "\\[BE\\]*" (empty result) * text ~ "BE" (empty result) * text ~ "BE*" (returns tasks that contains BE* but not tasks with BE inside brackets)

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Search text inside square bracket

fahminlb33

Most of our tickets is grouped inside square bracket like [BE], [FE], etc.

How can I search subtasks starting with those words? I've tried:

text ~ "\\[BE\\]" (empty result)
text ~ "\\[BE\\]*" (empty result)
text ~ "BE" (empty result)
text ~ "BE*" (returns tasks that contains BE* but not tasks with BE inside brackets)

Accepted answers

Alexander Pappert

is this working?

summary ~ [BE]*

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Alexander Pappert

is this working?

summary ~ [BE]*

fahminlb33

Hi @Alexander Pappert

Thanks for your answer, but it doesn't work for me. I've tried entering it but got this error:

`Error in JQL Query: Expecting either a value, list or function but got '['. You must surround '[' in quotation marks to use it as a value. (line 1, character 11)`

Alexander Pappert

@fahminlb33 ok, we have to ignore the first [, try

~ BE]*

Alexander Pappert

or like this:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/search-syntax-for-text-fields-939938747.html

Advanced search: Find all issues that contain the phrase Jira Software.
```
text ~ "\"Jira Software\""
```

PEIGNOT Erwan

For me, it worked like this :

summary ~ "\\[RRR\\]"

unknown

This one worked for me. All other variations above did not. This is in the "Board Settings" area where I was trying to get some JQL based quick filters created. Example: summary ~ "\\[DRAFT\\]" (But according to the search info above and the results I am seeing, this is really just the same as summary ~ DRAFT because the special characters are not indexed... Sigh.