Search text inside square bracket

[fahminlb33]

Most of our tickets is grouped inside square bracket like [BE], [FE], etc.

How can I search subtasks starting with those words? I've tried:

• text ~ "\\[BE\\]" (empty result)
• text ~ "\\[BE\\]*" (empty result)
• text ~ "BE" (empty result)
• text ~ "BE*" (returns tasks that contains BE* but not tasks with BE inside brackets)

[Alexander Pappert · Accepted solution]

is this working?

summary ~ [BE]*

[fahminlb33]

Hi @Alexander Pappert 

Thanks for your answer, but it doesn't work for me. I've tried entering it but got this error:

`Error in JQL Query: Expecting either a value, list or function but got '['. You must surround '[' in quotation marks to use it as a value. (line 1, character 11)`

[Alexander Pappert]

@fahminlb33  ok, we have to ignore the first [, try

~ BE]*

[Alexander Pappert]

or like this:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/search-syntax-for-text-fields-939938747.html 

• Advanced search: Find all issues that contain the phrase Jira Software.

  text ~ "\"Jira Software\""

[fahminlb33]

Still no luck. The problem is the text I'm looking for is inside square bracket, from several links on Google, I've come to this topic

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-25092

It seems that up until now we can't search text that surrounded by special characters?

[Alexander Pappert]

maybe you can use some script addons (JMCF or automation for jira), to copy the summary into another text field and then shorten it from

[BE] abc
to
BE

You could then use the JQL search

I did something similar with JMCF https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27136/jira-misc-custom-fields-jmcf?hosting=server&tab=overview 

[fahminlb33]

Thank you, I'll look into it.

[Vassilis Manolas]

found this: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/search-syntax-for-text-fields-861257223.html#SpecialCharacters

from another post

[PEIGNOT Erwan]

For me, it worked like this :

summary ~ "\\[RRR\\]"

[John Robi]

This one worked for me. All other variations above did not. This is in the "Board Settings" area where I was trying to get some JQL based quick filters created. Example: summary ~ "\\[DRAFT\\]" (But according to the search info above and the results I am seeing, this is really just the same as summary ~ DRAFT because the special characters are not indexed... Sigh.

[Andrzej Martyna]

so it looks like it is summary ~ RRR,
so... it does not work as expected...
It's a pitty

[PEIGNOT Erwan]

You're right Andrzej, it does not work as expected. There is no solution... :-( 

[Andreas Merz]

when will these Bug fixed?

Would be nice if any escape sequence would work...

[Lisa Ballard]

this works for us, to find [FE]:

summary ~ "\"[FE]\""

[Andreas Merz]

i think, \"[FE]\" returns all results with FE and not only [FE]