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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-14641

Impossible to distinguish between a space and an underscore in a search query

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    • Resolution: Obsolete
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    • 6.2.3
    • 3.11, 6.3.12
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      We just started using Jira here (3.11). We have thousands of commonly used terms
      in our company that have underscores in them and so a high percentage of our search
      queries will contain underscores. It is currently impossible for us to do these searches in
      Jira.

      Jira seems to treat the underscore character to be identical to a space character.
      For instance if I want to do a search that will match all words that start with "abc_",
      I get the following results.

      Search for:
      abc_
      Matches:
      abc_def (correct)
      abc_hij (correct)
      abc klm (wrong)
      abc def (wrong)

      Search for:
      "abc_"
      Matches:
      abc_def (correct)
      abc_hij (correct)
      abc klm (wrong)
      abc def (wrong)

      Search for:
      "abc_def"
      Matches:
      abc_def (correct)
      abc def (wrong)

      Search for:
      "abc def"
      Matches:
      abc_def (wrong)
      abc def (correct)

      I looked at the Lucene documentation, but underscore is not one of their reserved
      characters, so it appears that this behavior is coming from somewhere inside Jira.

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