how to get the whole string matched in regex

Question

I have this code

const paragraph = 'my name is bright and this is a testing interface, right.';
const regex = /\b(b)/g;
const found = paragraph.match(regex);

console.log(found);

What i want is that i want to get the whole word instead of just a single letter.

e.g the output in this code above is b which is gotten from the string bright in the paragraph but i don't just want the b but the word bright as a whole and still be able to manipulate it like make it bolder or something else. Please how do i do it and i have also checked other similar questions on stackoverflow but nothing

@WiktorStribiżew but will it work if I use js style to change the color or font — GrandFenrir, Jul 09 '20 at 00:00

Bren · Answer 1 · 2020-07-08T23:58:15.360

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Assuming you only want to match words delimited by spaces, this should do the trick.

((?:\w)+)

edited Jul 08 '20 at 23:58

answered Jul 08 '20 at 23:56

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OK I will try that – GrandFenrir Jul 08 '20 at 23:58
This could be written as `\w+` but it does not specify the `b` at the start of the word. – The fourth bird Jul 09 '20 at 08:32

how to get the whole string matched in regex

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