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Asked: 2026-05-12T08:53:40+00:00

I am using RegexKitLite in an iPhone project and want to use regex to

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I am using RegexKitLite in an iPhone project and want to use regex to find words that start with the @-sign. For instance, "@home @chores", when searched, would return both words.

The regex string I am using is "(?m-s:@.*\\s*)". When I use this, though, I get a crash. When I use the same thing, but with a # instead of @, it works just fine: “(?m-s:#.*\\s*)". WTF?

I would much appreciate it if someone with a better understanding of regular expressions could help me on this. The tutorials I have seen so far have been near incomprehensible to me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I did a modification of Manu’s idea, just switching the location of the @ in the regex.

    /(@\b\w+)/

    I tested it on a string with ‘@foo @bar @baz @lol’ and it seemed to do what you’re looking for in matching on the words and capturing them with the parens.

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