Neigher \K nor /r existed in Perl 5.6.x, which is the latest version of the regexp syntax that YAPE::Regex::Explain supports. (This is documented, and would have been pretty easy to test.)
perl -MYAPE::Regex::Explain -E 'say YAPE::Regex::Explain->new(q/@{[s".
+."."gr]}\K$"/)->explain'
...produces the following output (assuming a Perl that is recent enough to understand \K and /r):
The regular expression:
(?-imsx:@{[s".."."gr]}\K$")
matches as follows:
NODE EXPLANATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------
(?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
normally):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
@{ '@{'
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[s".."."gr] any character of: 's', '"', '.', '.', '"',
'.', '"', 'g', 'r'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
} '}'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
\K 'K'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ before an optional \n, and the end of the
string
----------------------------------------------------------------------
" '"'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
) end of grouping
----------------------------------------------------------------------
...which obviously is totally wrong. It completely misses that @{[.....]} interpolates code into a string (it instead thinks it's looking at a character class), it mistakes \K for literal "K", and mistakes $" for an end of line/string metacharacter, followed by a literal ", when it really should see the Perl special variable. Add to that the fact that it couldn't possibly understand the /r semantics, and the fact that we're using the regexp engine re-entrantly (which I don't think used to be possible), and it's a hopeless case for poor old YAPE::Regex::Explain.
I too am confused by why he demonstrated /@{[s".."."gr]}\K$"//; I don't see it mentioned among the submissions I viewed, and I don't see any mechanism for it actually doing what it's supposed to. It certainly doesn't match the code in the link provided.
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