hashtag boundaries matching regex in javascript

Question

I'm trying to match a set of hashtags or words in a javascript string.

(#hashtag|word)

almost does it, except I'd like to consider word boundaries.

\b(#hashtag|word)\b

doesn't match the beginning word boundary, since of course '#' is not a word character.

ideally i'd like to have something like a '\b' anchor that matches hashtags. Any idea?

Answer 1

What about insert word boundary inside the parenths :

/(#\bhashtag|\bword)\b/