Issue filter for summary is not working

[Robert Güntherberg]

In one of my Jira projects I have some issues with the summary in the following form:

A.1.2 Hello World 1
A.1.3 Hello World 2
A.2.2 Hello World 3
A.2.4 Hello World 4

Now I want to see all issues starting with A.1.

For this I wanted to use the following filter, where I don't get any results.

project = world AND summary ~ "A.1*"

However, if I only search for

project = world AND summary ~ "A"

all issues beginning with A will be displayed.

Does anyone have an idea where my mistake is? The Search syntax articles didn't really help me.

Thanks Robert

Edit: I think my server instance has an problem with the search-engine. Will report it to my server admins.

[Thomas Magny-Garcia · Accepted solution]

Hi @Robert Güntherberg 
It seems that JQL has some reserved characters, including ".".

You may try using unicode character ? (\u002E)

Or according to the doc

If you wish to use these characters in queries, you need to:

surround them with quote-marks (you can use either single quote-marks (') or double quote-marks ("));and, if you are searching a text field and the character is on the list of reserved characters for text searches,

precede them with two backslashes.

Hope it helps !

[Robert Güntherberg]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for your reply.

When I'm using with this string, I also get no results.

project = world AND summary ~ "A\u002E5\u002E1*"

Am I still doing something wrong?

Kind regards

[Thomas Magny-Garcia]

I don't think, at least, I don't have other idea.
I try on my project and it works fine... As you may see, both requests below.

Are you an server or cloud instance?

[Robert Güntherberg]

I'm on an server instance.

[fran garcia gomera]

It works fine for me

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