Selecting words in a text using regex

Question

var text = 'word otherword';

I want to select words that only matches with 'word'. When i use simply /word/ for regex pattern, then it also selects the 'word' part in 'otherword'. I dont need that word(in this case 'otherword').So how can i only select/match 'word' word using regex?

Answer 1

Use word boundary - \b.

/\bword\b/