Regular Expression in Automation Rule in JIRA

Question

Hello everyone,

I am trying to add a Regular expression check for the value of "Description" field in the issue. I want to check if the description field contains "PASS" word (case insensitive) then perform certain action. This works if I directly provide "PASS" for the description field with Contains condition but won't accept other cases. I have tried providing different regex such as "(?i)pass" , "/(?i)^pass$/" and many other patterns. Can you please provide the regex for such a case.

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Anirudh Nayak -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

First thing: the rules documentation around regular expressions states it is "based on Java's Pattern class", and others have found not all of the features from that spec work.  I find only experimentation confirms what does and does not work.

A work-around would be to force your description with toLowerCase() or toUpperCase() before the match() attempt.

Kind regards,
Bill

Manoj Kumar Gangwar · Answer

Hi @Anirudh Nayak ,

You may try something like below and use the JQL search condition.

Description ~ "PASS*"

OR

Description ~ \"PASS\"