Weird search issue using summary

[Mike Shkolnik]

I search for:

summary ~ "SA-10"

I get:

I search for:

summary ~ "SA-10-M"

I get:

That last result should be included in the first shorter search but it's not. What's going on?

[Daniel Eads {unmonitored account} · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike,

The ~ operator tries to use word stemming - things like "test" and "tester" will match a search of "testing" because they all share a common base word. Since Jira doesn't understand your summary as a word, it can't perform a word stem against it.

What you'll want to do to match the issue you show is use a fuzzy search. This uses the tilde sort of like a wildcard in your search text. You can read more about this here.

The modified JQL to match all 4 issues in your screenshot at once would be this (notice the tilde at the end of the search text):

project = YOURPROJ and summary ~ "SA-10~"

Cheers,
Daniel