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How to use wildcards in Jira search

Miguel Sanchez6

Hi,

I'm trying to create filters for confluence pages, but our naming scheme for Jira issues has made this a bit difficult

So this is what the title of an issue looks like, with animals subbed in

Cat Dog (Mouse Cow:Pig_Duck_01)
Cat Dog (Mouse Cow:Pig_Duck_02)
...
and so on

Now searching for "Pig_Duck_01" returns the first issue, but "Pig_Duck_0?" returns nothing. I've tried many combinations of *, ?,

matching a larger sequence and escaping the parens and more but cant seem to get it to match

im familiar with regex's and this is essentially what i want to match with the Jira search query

Cat Dog (Mouse Cow:Pig_Duck_\d+)
or just
Pig_Duck_\d+
would be enough

If anyone can help me here or point out what im doing wrong, that would be great.

M. Sanchez

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J Thomas4

What sort of field is the 'title' that you're searching on? Do you get a ~ operator in the Advanced Search? This would search for issues containing the specified value so using just Pig_Duck_0 with no wildcard should work.

The Summary field uses the ~ operator so if I search my JIRA for issues where summary ~ leave I get issues where summary contains the word 'Leaver'.

justindowning

From: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Performing+Text+Searches

You cannot search on word parts, only on whole words.

You can use '?' for single character replacement or '*' for multiple character replacement. I would suggest your search include the entire 'word' in your example: Cow:Pig_Duck_0?

As J Thomas points out, the summary filed (which I believe you reference as title) has the ability to use the CONTAINS ('~') operator. So, a JQL query like this should work too: summary ~ "Pig_Duck_0*"

Matthew Mares

In short:

Use '*' for multiple character replacement
Or use '?' for single character replacement

jennma

Nice one! Worked for me using the tilda!

scherbank

I guess also ~ instead of = at the beginning.

Ian Tait_d807u8

Can't search partial words? What a garbage query language.

paulacruickshank

That doesn't work for me at all

We have a field which can be filled with a release value eg

R1.1

R1.1.1

R1.1.3

The only operators that work are the ~ and IS. But I can't find anyway at all to bring up all issues which have these three values in by only specifying the R1.1 part

paulacruickshank

Typing * or ? in my query only results in the message that they are special characters and cannot be used?

paulacruickshank

Aha I have to sound the body of the text in quotes. Thank you

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