How can I search for issues with a percent sign in?

[Mark Everest]

I need to search for issues that contacin "40%", but Jira removes the % and just searches for "40"

I've tried:

• 40\%
• 40[%]
• 40\u0025
• 40\u005c\u0025

Any ideas please anyone?

[Kean Erickson]

Hello everyone. This is a bit late but I think this is still a bug, percent and underscore are treated as wildcards but there's no way to escape them. 

[Mikael Löwenadler]

summary ~ "40%" works in 4.4. What version are you using?

[Mark Everest]

4.2.4 and I get the same issue in 4.4.3.

Searching for "40%" returns all issues that contain "40" not just "40%" - I don't want to have to page through hundreds of issues to find the one or two that I'm interested in.

[Mikael Löwenadler]

Sorry, I didnt relaize that you actually wanted to search for % which is a bit tricky since % is a wildcard in sql.

I agree, the jql string expansion doesnt seem to handle % in a correct way, (at least not as specfied in the manual).

[MinC]

Have you try with double quotes? http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching#AdvancedSearching-ReservedCharacters

[Mark Everest]

Yeah - that didn't work either :-(