can somebody please explain to me whats the "o" means.

In interpolating patterns, /o will only interpolate once, the first time the regex is evaluated.

for my $x (qw( foo bar )) {
   /$x/o;
}
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is the same as

/foo/;
/foo/;
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It's used for optimising, but it's made rather useless by qr//.