Is there a plugin that allows regex in searches?

[Sergeo Khomutetsky]

JIRA has very poor searching and filtering capability. For instance, you cannot search the Summary field or Description field for:

· * Case sensitivity. All searches are case insensitive.

· * Position of a word or phrase in the text field.

· * Starts with ...

· * Ends with …

· * Repeated patterns.

· * Special character recognition and escaping special characters does not work right.

The jira-plugin-pack plugin is unstable and unsupported, so we can't use it. Does anyone know of a similar plugin that allows regex in searches or have a different solution? We are using JIRA 4.4. Is this resolved in version 5.x?

[Luis Mayora · Accepted solution]

I dont know any plugins that can do regex but if you find one take a look at the following.

1. Forward Compatibility (Allow you to upgrade without issues)

2. Reasonable ammount of downloads (People are using it)

3. Version History (Make sure is not new)

[JamieA]

Sounds like you have been bitten recently Louis, from your other answer too. I totally agree with you, but these caveats are always true. There are other questions specifically about why you shouldn't install plugins.

[JamieA]

You could try issueFieldMatch in the script runner plugin.

[JamieA]

Only supports jira 5.1+ though.

[Sergeo Khomutetsky]

Thank you, kind sirs!

[Luis Mayora]

Indeed.

[Luis Mayora]

Hi,

Did you try this one.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Performing+Text+Searches

[Sergeo Khomutetsky]

Thanks for this and it sounds like we need to upgrade. Do you (or anyone else) know of a plugin other than the ira-plugin-pack plugin that allows regex searches in 4.4?