tweet_patterns.md

FILTER PATTERNS!!!!!!!!!

// charactes /(["'([])[a-zA-Z0-9:,.']{2,}["')]]\s$?/g // username /(RT:?)?["\s]{1,2}?@[a-zA-Z\d_]+(\s?:)?/g //what does the "{1,2}" do? // What does the "?" do? ---> says "select this (this beings what before) if it's there, but still selects if it's not" //the + is what makes it select only strings that have text after @ //Couldn't @[a-zA-Z\d_] be changed to @\w ?? // all quotes /["']/g // LtR emoticons /[:;][-']?[)([]{}*oO0DpP]/g // RtL emoticons /D:/g //URLS /(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|(([^\s()<>]+|(([^\s()<>]+)))))+(?:(([^\s()<>]+|(([^\s()<>]+))))|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/g

//My attempts

A better retweet filter: /(RT:?)?["\s]?(@[\w]+)?[\s"]?(\s?:)?[\s"] - RT @username: - RT @username: " - RT @username - RT: @username - RT:@username - RT: - RT: " - RT "

USAGE!!!!!!!!!!

var emoticon_pattern = /[:;][\-']?[\)\(\*oODpP]/g,
	tweet = 'today I went to the park. :-)';

tweet = tweet.replace(emoticon_pattern, '');

OR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

var filter_tweet = function(tweet) {
	var filter_patterns = [
			// charactes
			/([\"\'\(\[])*[a-zA-Z0-9:\,\.\']{2,}[\"\'\)\]]*\s?/g,
			// username
			/(RT:?)?["\s]{1,2}?@[a-zA-Z_]+(\s?:)?/g,
			// all quotes
			/["']/g,
			// LtR emoticons
			/[:;][\-']?[\)\(\*oODpP]/g,
			// RtL emoticons
			/D:/g,
			//URLS
			/((http|https)(:\/\/))?([a-zA-Z0-9]+[.]{1}){2}[a-zA-z0-9]+(\/{1}[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*\/?/g
		];

	for(var i=0; i<filter_patterns.length; i++) {
		tweet=tweet.replace(filter_patterns[i], '');
	}

	return tweet;
}