How extract first occurence of match in Description in Automation for Jira

[Jeff Gordon]

I am using Automation for Jira to set the value of a field based on extracting a value from the Description.  In my case the Description will contain multiple lines with the relevant ones as in the following example...

Detailed Order

Supplier This Supplier

Supplier That Supplier

Ship to Some Address

Supplier Order

The value I want is "This Supplier" and I am using the following expression to attempt to extract it.

{{issue.description.split("\n").match("Supplier (.*)").first}}

Unfortunately I always get "That Supplier".

Any ideas on the correct way to do this?

[Mykenna Cepek · Accepted solution]

I tried your example in our Jira Server instance, and it seemed to work fine.

I updated the Description of an existing issue:

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I used the smart value expression you listed in a Log Action:

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And I manually invoked the rule on that issue. The result:

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[Jeff Gordon]

Thanks for confirming this should work.  I will check to see if there's something else in the Description (it's actually much larger than my snippet) that's possibly impacting this.

[Jeff Gordon]

Got this working.  Discovered that the spacing between the "Supplier" and the following value wasn't always a single space.  So modified the match patten to "Supplier\s+(.*)" and it finds the correct occurrence.