How can we filter out the manually entered string if it matches the regex and do not show it as a tag. eg: **@[ What is going on]( hello )**

[shaheer2020]

The MentionInput currently formats the selected tag items as @Selected_Tag. And in the actual text value it will be provides as @ [ Selected_Tag](TagID) from the data model. But the issue I face here is it will follow the same thing when user enter a text as follows: @ [ What is going on]( hello ) This will get formatted as @what is going on and will be shown to the user as a tag.
@dabakovich Is there anyway that we can escape this user entered string which matches the regex (style it like the normal text, so it does not look like a tag) and consider only the actual tags to look as tags.

[farazirfan47]

I am looking for the same solution, @shaheer2020 did you figure this out?

[hirbod]

I was asking myself the same question today. @dabakovich are you still maintaining this library?

[dabakovich]

Thanks for your feedbacks. For now, unfortunately, we can't avoid this. The core concept of the library is to store the whole value as plain text, not as an array of parts. However, in the future (likely in the next v3 release), you will be able to provide your custom mention pattern that could be more complex.

[dabakovich]

Hi all.

I'm glad to say that v3 release is coming with few core improvements. One of the new features is full support of multiple characters trigger and custom regex pattern for mentions.

You can find examples of using new v3 release here: https://github.com/dabakovich/react-native-controlled-mentions/blob/3.0/example/mentions-functional-component.tsx

To test alpha pre-release please, install the library using next command:

yarn add react-native-controlled-mentions@alpha
// or
npm install --save react-native-controlled-mentions@alpha

[hirbod]

@dabakovich sorry for hijacking this, but is support for Async fetches also supported OOTB?