How do I search for the text string "OCCB-DR-180?"

[lfobel]

We have a JIRA text string that contains two dashes. I have tried just about all of the suggested ways in the JIRA On-line help to search for the string, but no luck. The latest search I tried was a simple search using OCCB\-DR\-180 but it didn't work. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

[Kapil Bolli · Accepted solution]

Hello fobel,

you can also search the string in Simple Searching Pane by covering the string with double quotes.

PFA

[lfobel]

This works in the Simple search. Thanks!

[Mizan]

You need to put the value in double quotes and use the tilde (~) operator e.g.textfield_name ~ "OCCB-DR-180"

[Andrzej Pasterczyk]

In my JIRA 5 works fine without any escaping. E.g. the following JQL query returns proper results

summary ~ OCCB-DR-180 OR description ~ OCCB-DR-180 OR comment ~ OCCB-DR-180