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${^PREMATCH}

This is similar to $` ($PREMATCH) except that it does not incur the performance penalty associated with that variable, and is only guaranteed to return a defined value when the pattern was compiled or executed with the /p modifier.

This variable was added in Perl 5.10

This variable is read-only and dynamically-scoped.