Regex to match word beginning with @

Question

I am trying to develop some regex to find all words that start with an @:

I thought that \\@\\w+ would do it but this also matches words that have @ con

Answer 1

And what about a non-Regex approach?

C# version:

string input = "word1 word2 @word3 ";
string[] resultWords = input.Split(' ').ToList().Where(x => x.Trim().StartsWith("@")).ToArray();

VB.NET version:

Dim input As String = "word1 word2 @word3 "
Dim resultWords() As String = input.Split(" "c).ToList().Where(Function(x) x.Trim().StartsWith("@")).ToArray