So \K basically means don't worry, I only started matching *here*, where here is the position where the previous atom of the regex stopped matching e.g
my $str = "foo bar baz";
# will 'start' matching here ^
$str =~ s< (?: \w+ [ ] )+ \K \w+ >()x;
print '[' . $str . ']';
__output__
[foo bar ]
Or should I just go back to implementing pointers in perl?
HTH
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broquaint
update: added missing whitespace in output (odd how an additional character requires so many to explain ;)
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