Automation: Customfield exactly matches regular expression

[Thomas]

Hi all,

I am trying to include an "If" block in my automation to check whether a custom field (Text Field (single line)) starts with any of those strings:

Advanced compare condition

{{issue.customfield_10028}}

exactly matches regular expression

/^000|^ABC|^DEF|^HIJ|^KLM|^NOP|^QRS|^TUV/i

Somehow this never passes although the value in my customfield is e.g. ABC123Z34D.

Note: this match should be case insensitive which I think is covered by /i

What am I missing here?

Thanks for your help!

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems · Accepted solution]

@Thomas, 

I would change it to this -

(^000|^ABC|^DEF|^HIJ|^KLM|^NOP|^QRS|^TUV).*

[Thomas]

Hm, appears not to pick it up.

I tried

(^000|^ABC|^DEF|^HIJ|^KLM|^NOP|^QRS|^TUV).*

and

/(^000|^ABC|^DEF|^HIJ|^KLM|^NOP|^QRS|^TUV).*/i

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

What is the exact value of the custom field you are trying to use this for?

[Thomas]

It could be something like this:

00013F123d

ABC12345

Abc12345

abC12356

Those would all be valid.

[Thomas]

I have now tried various combinations but none of them seem to work.

One issue came in with

customfield_10028 "0006ABCD"

so ^000 should have been a match but didnt.

I also changed the condition from "matches exactly" to "contains regular expression" but this does not make difference either.

I'm a bit lost to be honest :)

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

Hmm, I'm using a "matches regex exactly.".

I did find an issue with casing, but when I amended it to this regex I didn't run into any more casing issues.

(?i)(^000|^ABC|^DEF|^HIJ|^KLM|^NOP|^QRS|^TUV).*

[Thomas]

This appears to have done the trick! Thank you ever so much!