Using find & replace on a string with a regex pattern @([A-Za-z0-9_]+) allows you to find a @mention in a sentence. It would be awesome to add the ability to extract a word within a string :extract only allows the user to extract an email. If you added the ability to extract text from a string, wi…

I also think that this would be a great addition and probably an easy one for the bubble team. @josh Could you add the ability to use the :extract feature to extract things from a string using regex?

We could look into adding this. Which Regex would you use that with?

I’d like to get mentions from a text, using a regex like this /@\S+/ should return just that. I actually ended up using another solution found on the forum which uses webtask and the API connector to accomplish just that but for the future it’d be useful to simply :extract things from text using re…

And it would return a list of texts?

Yes. “This is an @example for @bubble forum” would return a list of text: “@example”, “ @bubble ”;

Same, any more info on how to make this work?

@Mentions are almost possible

Idea Implemented

gaurav October 11, 2017, 9:11pm 12

We just published a plugin to do this

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@Mentions are almost possible

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