About Using Regular Expressions in Django Querysets
You can capture regular expressions within strings using this technique:
from django.db import models
from people.models import Person
qs = Person.objects.annotate(
twitter_username=models.Func(
models.Func(
models.F("name"),
models.Value(r"\@\S+"),
function="REGEXP_MATCH",
),
models.Value(""),
function="ARRAY_TO_STRING",
)
)
Then in the template you can read the twitter_username as follows:
{{ person.twitter_username|default:"" }}
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