Search for Double Quote - How to Escape Special Characters

[Hasti Chitsazan]

I need to search for the exact word "Admin" (including double quotes). When I enter "Admin" in BitBucket search box, it only returns me Admin (not including doube quotes). 

[Guille]

Most of those special characters are actually part of the code. Searching for code terms should include them. Expected feature.

[Dina]

I am interested in searching for something specific in the code that happens to have quotes (") in them.  Searching without quotes returns too much data and is not usable. This is a big inconvenience. Could you suggest a way around this or add it as part of your feature in the future.

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Hi Hasti

As per Search for code in Bitbucket Server page says:

There are some restrictions on how searches are performed:

All punctuation characters are removed. !"#$%&'()*+,-/:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}~

As you can see " character is included in the list... so you cannot use it to search a term in Bitbucket.

Regards

[Hasti Chitsazan]

Thanks Jack for your response. Is there anyway escape them somehow? (I found this link: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Escaping-special-characters-in-Jira-JQL-Search/qaq-p/351171) but I don't know how to apply it to my situation.

[inger_klekacz]

The link that Jack posted now points to an unrelated page which does not have this information.

[nataliawatanabe]

This is the correct link https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/bitbucket-search-syntax-814204781.html

Bitbucket uses ElastichSearch (or OpenSearch) to index the code and provide searches. Jira uses Lucene (https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/understand-the-index-process-in-jira-server-776654790.html)

[akatz]

Hi,

I am trying to search job: in all our repositories but currently, there is no way, per documentation to do it...

Thanks

[Simon Baker]

Atlassian should be ashamed of this. We are thwarted at every turn because of some stupid missing functionality that is available every else in far superior products. I rue the day our organisation adopted Bitbucket! 

We absolutely need a way to search for the text we need to find! I am personally trying to find all code with ${...} style variables in POM files, and I'm just blown away by how useless the Bitbucket search functionality is.

[Kelly.Rankin]

They really need to get on this. It's insane to me how much this limits the power of the search in bitbucket.... I need to find something with a slash in the middle and I simply cannot!

[Gabriele Santi]

It's embarrassing. I need to search in terraform files across a variety of repositories for a named resource, that is string that contains double quotes in defined positions. Cannot escape them. Any other search term yields hundreds of results. And this journey happens on a daily basis, as terraform code is organised in modules, spread across multiple repos, and only one of them can "own" a defined resource (hope I can post this reply, since it contains double quotes now). This is a deal breaker, especially because the vast majority of, if not all, the competing products implement this.