Jira Automation and Regex - Escaping?

Question

I have the following regex, which works, but Jira, on the action only, splits the regex on the comma.  How can I fix/prevent this?

{{comment.body.match("([A-Z0-9]{2,10}-\d+)")}}

The error returned is:

Link issues

Error linking issues{{comment.body.match("([A-Z0-9]\{2: Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it., 10\}-\d+)")}}: Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it.

Mark Segall · Answer

Yeah that's unfortunate.  I wish I were a regex ninja or I'd offer up another way of tackling the problem.  Hopefully someone else in the community can help.

John_ynr2w6 · Answer

Great thought.  It seems either Jira cannot handle variables inside smart tags, or I have the wrong syntax.  Looks like it was a know jira limitation a few years back, not certain if it's been fixed.

Error linking issues 
{{comment.body.match({{myRegex}})}}: Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it.

Mark Segall · Answer

Hi @John - This one is interesting.  Perhaps try creating a variable and then using the variable to perform the link action?