Re: Purpose of the "caret" character in "qr" regex output

$ man perlre

    Starting in Perl 5.14, a "^" (caret or circumflex accent)
    immediately after the "?" is a shorthand equivalent to
    "d-imnsx".  Any positive flags (except "d") may follow
    the caret, so

        (?^x:foo)

    is equivalent to

        (?x-imns:foo)

    The caret tells Perl that this cluster doesn't inherit the
    flags of any surrounding pattern, but uses the system
    defaults ("d-imnsx"), modified by any flags specified.
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Re^2: Purpose of the "caret" character in "qr" regex output by roho (Bishop) on Jul 31, 2025 at 04:33 UTC
Thank you jwkrahn. "It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."	[reply]