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:pos
Combined from primary sources listed below.

In Regexes§

See primary documentation in context for Pos

Anchor the match at a specific position in the string:

given 'abcdef' {
    my $match = m:pos(2)/.*/;
    say $match.from;        # OUTPUT: «2␤» 
    say ~$match;            # OUTPUT: «cdef␤» 
}

:p is shorthand for :pos.

Note: unlike :continue, a match anchored with :pos() will fail, instead of attempting to match further down the string:

say "abcdefg" ~~ m:c(3)/e.+/; # OUTPUT: «｢efg｣␤» 
say "abcdefg" ~~ m:p(3)/e.+/; # OUTPUT: «False␤»