Filtering using RegEx within Jquery

Question

I am using the below plugin to fetch tweets and display them.

http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/

Within the plugin is a filter feature, and the below regex filters out all tweets on the account which are replies:

filter: function(t){ return ! /^@\w+/.test(t.tweet_raw_text); }

I wish to now build on this filter to only display tweets which contain the hashtag '#capetowntrains'

Can anyone assist me with the correctly formed RegEx statement?

Thanks for the help

Regards

Devin

CaffGeek · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10 19:51:08Z

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Should just need to change it to this

filter: function(t){ 
    return (! /^@\w+/.test(t.tweet_raw_text)) && (/#capetowntrains/.test(t.tweet_raw_text)); 
}

We only keep things that are not replies and also contain #capetowntrains.

EDIT: and if you want it to be case insensitive (note the added i)

filter: function(t){ 
    return (! /^@\w+/.test(t.tweet_raw_text)) && (/#capetowntrains/i.test(t.tweet_raw_text)); 
}

edited Oct 10, 2012 at 19:51

answered Oct 10, 2012 at 18:10

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user1434739 Over a year ago

Hi CaffGeek. Thanks for your response. I need the regex to still remove the replies in addition to filtering out the hashtag. Can you please combine the 2.

CaffGeek Over a year ago

@user1434739, Sorry, that wasn't clear in the question. Fixed.

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