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How do I search for words preceded by a full stop? e.g. SomeText.TheSearchTerm

Gerri Mills

I am trying to search for a term in my confluence site. For example "CustomerName".

If a page contains just the word e.g. Page 1: "The CustomerName field" then the search will return it.

If a page has another word and a full stop included in that term e.g Page 2: "The Customers.CustomerName field" then search will not return that page.

I've tried "*CustomerName" but apparently a wildcard cannot be the first character in a search term according to this page https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/confluence-search-syntax/

Interestingly, the wildcards don't seem to work with full stop.

If I search for "Customers*CustomerName" or "Customers?CustomerName" Page 2 is not returned in the results for either, only if "Customers.CustomerName" is the search term

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Kishan Sharma

Hi @Gerri Mills

There are few alternatives to this, please refer this article which might help in your case.

Gerri Mills

Thank you @Kishan Sharma but they didn't work for me.

Kishan Sharma

I have tested this for you. Please try advanced search like below -

/.*CustomerName*./

Let me know how it goes.

Gerri Mills

Hi Kishan,

Thank you, I had tried that but it didn't work. Are you on confluence cloud or server? We are on cloud.

All my research is showing there is no way to search for a wildcard at the start of a phrase in confluence.

/.*ustomerName*./

returns no results at all.

The first issue is really serious for us as we use confluence for systems documentation and it's impossible to do a search for all pages using a field name that might have a different table name. Most limitations in confluence I can find a work around, but there is none for this.

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