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Re^3: strange usage of s///

by brx (Pilgrim)
on Sep 03, 2013 at 20:35 UTC ( [id://1052177]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: strange usage of s///
in thread strange usage of s/// [solved: Perl 5.14 and 5.16 bug]

#!perl -pl s/@{[s".."."gr]}\K$"//

I understand the regex like this:

s/....\K // (with the good number of '.')

...but in facts it works like this:

s/....\K/ /

I don't understand why. The usage of $" seems magic too...

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