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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:42:26+00:00

I would like to use regular expression to extract only @patrick @michelle from the

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I would like to use regular expression to extract only @patrick @michelle from the following sentence:

@patrick  @michelle we having diner @home tonight do you want to join?

Note: @home should not be include in the result because, it is not at beginning of the sentence nor is followed by another @name.

Any solution, tip, comments will be really appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team
    /(?:(?:@\S+\s+)+|^)@\S+/g

    It first matches either an “@” followed by many non-space characters, or the start of line, and then matches another “@” followed by many non-space characters.

    Note that it’s common in Twitter that @name is preceded by RT, appears in the middle or end of the tweet e.g. http://twitter.com/ceetee/statuses/9874073403. Basically you can’t distinguish whether a @name is really a name just using RegEx or even a parser. The best bet is to check if http://twitter.com/name 404 or not.

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