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What does the \K mean?

from Perldoc perlre: "Character Classes and other Special Escapes" 

 \K       Keep the stuff left of the \K, don't include it in $&

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It says that the bit of the regex preceding it is only used to locate the part of the string to be replaced, but isn't a part of the substitution. It just saves the need for an extra capture.

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Re^4: Search patern within pattern in a single substitute command
by shobhit (Sexton) on Mar 04, 2011 at 05:40 UTC
    Makes sense. Thanks a lot for your help.
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