Smartvalue problem for Regex with commas in automation

Question

I have been using this regex to find reference to other ticket in comments and make a related link:

[A-Z]+-\d+

it works, but it is too general and often causes errors for things that aren't really a ticket descriptor. I changed to this:

[A-Z]{2,8}\b-\d{3,6}\b

which is specific enough to catch things much more finitely.

However, when the automation runs the command to establish the link

{{comment.body.match("{{[A-Z]{2,8}\b-\d{3,6}\b}}")}}

it fails because it is seeing the commas in the regex as delimiters and generates this error:

{{comment.body.match("{{[A-Z]{2: Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it., 8}\b-\d{3: Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it., 6}\b}}")}}: Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Brandon Hennegan x368 · Answer

I tried the variable option and it seemed promising as it didn't cause a comma error, but it also doesn't seem to catch any return from the regex (even though the exact same regex is resolving as true in the IF comparison check.   A log of the variable returns blank.

Brandon Hennegan x368 · Answer

and here's the original that works (but is too general, but doesn't need comma's)

Brandon Hennegan x368 · Answer

No not trying to match {{ sequence.