Javascript reg ex to match whole word only, bound only by whitespace

Question

so I know \\bBlah\\b will match a whole Blah, however it will also match Blah in \"Blah.jpg\" I don\'t want it to. I want to match only whole words with a space on either

Answer 1

extracting all words in a string

words_array = str.match(/\b(\w|')+\b/gim)   //only single qout allowed