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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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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Obsolete
    • Medium
    • 6.2.3
    • 3.11, 6.3.12
    • Indexing

    • Server is some version of RHEL. Better information available if requested.

    Description

      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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          is duplicated by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-34287 Unable to search Partial words that contain underscores

          • Medium - Medium priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRACLOUD-66210 Searching for issues which have underscore in their summary does not come up in JIRA

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-30976 The summary (~) operator doesn't work correctly on JIRA 5.2.x

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-32441 Searching with * only searches for alphanumeric characters

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Gathering Impact
          is related to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-8669 search for string with underscore ( _ ) always returns no results

          • Medium - Medium priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-32440 Not possible to search for alphanumeric values in issue navigator

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-41724 Strange behaviors of Contains ( ~ ) operator when searching for Text blocks

          • Medium - Medium priority issues
          • Gathering Impact
          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-5567 Incorrect stemming causes some words to be unsearchable

          • Medium - Medium priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-33306 Advance Search for String that Contain Hyphen Returns Result

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-14554 Change search so that searching for cat_dog returns only pages w/cat_dog, instead of pages with cat &/or dog

          • Closed

          Suggestion - JRASERVER-17463 Better exact-text searching

          • Gathering Interest

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