in reply to Practical use cases for \K in regex

Variable look-behind-assertions were not available before 5.30. IMHO it makes no sense to combine a look-behind-assertion with \K.
\K comes handy in cases like 

echo fooooobar | perl -pe 's/fo{2,}ba\Kr/z/'

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