in reply to Re^3: ${^MATCH} regex special variable(s) and /p regex modifier
in thread ${^MATCH} regex special variable(s) and /p regex modifier

Yes, but it seems anything but a literal string will make the variable defined. 

$ perl -wE 'my $s = "foo 123"; $s =~ /\d+/; say ${^PREMATCH}'
foo

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