Question

I got a string like this one:

var tweet ="@fadil good:))RT @finnyajja: what a nice day RT @fadielfirsta: how are you? @finnyajja yay";

what kind of code should work to extract any words with @ character and also removing any special char at the end of the words? so it would an array like this :

(@fadil, @finnyajja, @fadielfirsta, @finnyajja);

i have tried the following code :

var users = $.grep(tweet.split(" "), function(a){return /^@/.test(a)});

it returns this:

(@fadil, @finnyajja:, @fadielfirsta:, @finnyajja)

there’s still colon ‘:’ character at the end of some words. What should I do? any solution guys? Thanks

Answer 1

Here is code that is more straightforward than trying to use split:

var tweet_text ="@fadil good:))RT @finnyajja: what a nice day RT @fadielfirsta: how are you? @finnyajja yay";

var result = tweet_text.match(/@\w+/g);