Searching for $ symbol doesn't work in JIRA

Erica Larson

I have made multiple different attempts to search for $ in any text field and I can't get any of them to work.  I want to find the symbol in the summary or a custom text field.  I don't receive an error message but no results populate.

• summary ~ '$'
• summary ~ "$"
• summary ~ "\"$\""
• summary ~ '\\$'
• summary ~ '\\$\\'
• summary ~ "\\[$\\]"
• summary ~ "0$0"
• summary ~ \u0024
• summary ~ "\u0024"

Pages I found with recommendations but none of them work for $ symbol that I have tried.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/advanced-searching-861257209.html#Advancedsearching-restrictionsRestrictedwordsandcharacters 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/search-syntax-for-text-fields-861257223.html#Searchsyntaxfortextfields-escapingEscapingspecialcharacters:\or\\

I also tired searching $ on Confluence and I couldn't populate any results.

Andy Heinzer

Hi Erica,

Jira's JQL can't perform searches for just a single character, or for fragments of words.  Instead Jira has to search for whole words.  This is a known limitation explained in https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/search-syntax-for-text-fields-861257223.html#Searchsyntaxfortextfields-Wholewordsonly

However I think there might be a way to get around this with the use of a plugin for Jira.  For example, I believe that the Scriptrunner plugin will allow you to use regex searches of specific issue fields in Jira per https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/jql-functions.html#_regular_expressions

If you had this plugin with Jira, I believe you could then do a search such as

issueFunction in issueFieldMatch("", "summary", "\$")

which I believe will then be able to help find issues that contain that specific character in their summary field.

Of course there might exist other plugins in Marketplace that could help here as well.