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$PREMATCH

The string preceding whatever was matched by the last successful pattern match (not counting any matches hidden within a BLOCK or eval enclosed by the current BLOCK). (Mnemonic: ` often precedes a quoted string.) This variable is read-only.

Source: Perl predefined variables
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.

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