Searching for issues with multiple labels when I'm only interested in one of those labels

[Mark Wahle]

We have issues that may have no label, one label (e.g. A), or multiple labels (e.g. A,B,C). I have been able to create searches that find issues that have no label, or have only one specific label, but I have not been able to create a search that finds issues containing a particular label. Everything I have tried fails to retrieve issues that have multiple labels (e.g. A,B,C) when I am interested in something like labels ~ B or labels !~ B. Help?

[Brien Matthys · Accepted solution]

References:
Searching for multiple labels

How can I search for issues that do NOT have a certain label

[Mark Wahle]

Thanks! I found both of these and did not think they applied, but once I tested them, they worked great!

[sherrily]

I have the same issue.  I have read both links multiple times and have tried eveything I can think of for combinations but nothing works.  I have Jira with an unknown number of and name of labels and I need to look for one specific label among them.  So I need to look for label B in amongst who knows what other labels.  How do I do that?