How do I match with Regex with word boundaries?

Question

I am using JavaScript:

::add ::stuff more::word

I want to match ::add and ::stuff, but not ::word.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can use a non-word boundary \B here:

var r = '::add ::stuff more::word'.match(/\B::\w+/g);
console.log(r); //=> [ '::add', '::stuff' ]