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orig
Combined from primary sources listed below.

In Match§

See primary documentation in context for method orig. 

method orig()

Returns the original input to the regex engine, which is usually a string, but doesn't need to be (could be anything that can be coerced to a string):

42 ~~ /.+/;
say $/.orig;            # OUTPUT: «42␤»
say $/.orig.^name;      # OUTPUT: «Int␤»

See method target for a close equivalent that always returns a string.