Using regular expression in confluence title search

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Is it possible to use regular expressions in title search in the search macro?

I tried the following

{search:title:SomeTitle*|maxLimit=10|spacekey=TEST}

But no results. Expected to see pages with title SomeTitleOne, SomeTitleTwo etc!

[Andrew Frayling · Accepted solution]

Ah, ok, I tried all sorts of combinations and this is the closest I got with a search with 2 pages:

SomeTitleOne

SomeTitleTwo

{search:title:sometitle?*}

returns both pages.

So it looks like you can do a regex of sorts, just not have * as the first wildcard.

Not sure if that would work for you?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Awesome! Interesting observation:

{search:title:SomeTitle?*}

didn't work but the following did! I don't mind though ;)

{search:title:sometitle?*}

[Tom Towkach]

Unless your site contains Japanese characters, then a search on title without "" around it finds both regarless. Not sure about any other language, but I just verified that in japanese. I guess the developers didnt' talk to each other?

[Andrew Frayling]

Try:

{search:title:sometitle\*|maxLimit=10|spacekey=TEST}

i.e. escape the * with a \

As Confluence uses Lucene it treats the * as a literal when searching on fields unless you escape it.

I tried this on the Demonstration Space on my install and :

{search:title:tutorial*}

returned zero results, but:

{search:title:tutorial\*}

returned 2 results as expected.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

[Andrew Frayling]

When I searched for:

{search:title:tutorial\*}

I got:

"Tutorial"

"Tutorial (all on one page)"

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Doesn't work for me. What are the titles of the results you got?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I see. Here 'Tutorial' is a single word. If you have a page with TutorialInASingleWord as title, it won't be in the search results. That is exactly the problem for me!

For me, I am getting titles with sometitle in it but not titles with sometitleone.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Awesome! Interesting observation:

{search:title:SomeTitle?*}

didn't work but the following did! I don't mind though ;)

{search:title:sometitle?*}

[Lionel Hutz]

I know regular expressions don't work when doing a regular confluence search on metadata (use the default search box and search for "title:SomeTitle*"). It could be that this carries over to the search macro.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

That's what I thought too. Just wanted to confirm. Also wanted to see if there are any plugins that supports this!