Since not all regex flavors support lookarounds, Perl introduced the match reset - \K
(bolded is mine):
\K
resets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match
To make the explanation short, consider the following simple Regex:
a\Kb
When "b" is matched, \K
tells the Regex engine to pretend that the match attempt started at this position.
~$ echo 'hello world' | grep -oP 'hello \K(world)'
world
~$ echo 'hello world' | grep -oP 'hello (world)'
hello world
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