Regex question for ScriptRunner

[Hadas]

Is there a way to set regex to change "word" with "phrase" but not if "*word*" is there?

I mean, can we change the 'word' only if it is not part of a bigger word?

I want to bold a word so looking for "Expected" to change into "*Expected*" but I don't want to change if the word is already bolded.

Thanks for whoever answers

[Hadas]

@Vikrant Yadav I noticed you understand regex pretty well. Do you know if this is possible or not?

[Vikrant Yadav]

Hi @Hadas  Using following regex you can validate the letter between asterisk *letter* or not.  If *vikrant* is written then it's true otherwise it's false. 

Regex code :- \*.*?\*(?!\.\S)

You can test the code here :- https://regex101.com/

Let me know, if this regex not working as per your expectation. 

Thanks

V.Y

[Vikrant Yadav]

@Hadas  if you using JIRA Cloud, it's better to use Project automation instead of scriptrunner. 

[Hadas]

But still I'd need regex there right?

The problem is I don't know how to replace a string if it is does not part of a bigger pattern.

How would you replace the following text in the issue description?

expected: bla bla and Exptected: bla bla

with

Exptected: bla bla and Exptected: bla bla

[Vikrant Yadav]

Hi @Hadas  I am not sure how to validate bold letter using Project automation or Scriptrunner for cloud. I think  Regex not work in your scenario. In this smart values need to create. Let me add Project automation expert in our chat. 

@Bill Sheboy  Can you please us in validating and updating plain letter into Bold letter. 

[Hadas]

Some more information:

Trying with Jira automation worked if the word "Expected" appears only once but gave weird results if it appears twice or more so I gave it up.

I use ScriptRunner to get the 'description' field text.

and then replaced "Expected" with "*Expected*". The problem it will also replace if "*Expected*" exists and make it "**Expected**" so I want to exclude "*Expected*"

I can work it around with first replacing "*Expected*" with "Expected" but I thought maybe there is a better way to exclude from within the regex expressions.

[Vikrant Yadav]

Using Regex try to validate if it's *expected* or only expected is present in desc.  If *expected* then no action else change to bold. 

In scriptrunner you are changing html description into text right ?  

You can do the same in project automation convert html desc to text then validate using regex. 

[Hadas]

But doing so will result in nothing in case both strings exists right? So the non bolded 'expected' would not change also.

Yes I the 'description' comes as text rather than html. I did not did this on purpose. This is how the get call works I guess.

[Vikrant Yadav]

@Hadas  I am not sure how to get description field value in scriptrunner for jira cloud. If it's an api call then result in json right ? In Json for bold result comes in this format :- 

You can check if contains expected under b":[] then don't make it bold. 

b": [
"bold",
"hold"

]

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Hadas  and @Vikrant Yadav 

For automation text replacement, you noted the case of "*Expected*" exists and the search/replace makes it "**Expected**"

In my experience...I find some things in the Java Pattern specification for regular expressions are not supported in the automation rule implementation.  So a work-around for the doubling to "**" is to first use a regular expression search/replace, and then chain to use the plain text replace to remove the extra asterisks (or another regular expression).

Kind regards,
Bill