End of string anchors

of course the above regex will match things that are not phone numbers as well:

use v6;

my $phone = "054-1234567";

if "foo 3-4 bar" ~~ m/ \d '-' \d / {
	say "match others as well";
} 

^ always matches the beginning of the string $ always matches the end of the string + (and *, ?) are the same quantifiers as earlier

use v6;

my $phone = "054-1234567";

if $phone ~~ m/ ^ \d+ '-' \d+ $ / {
	say "Use anchors and quantifiers";
}

On the other hand if you'd like to match beginning or end of line, those are ^^ and $$. So no need for special mode for this. Also if you want to match a newline you can use \n and if you want to match any character except newline (the old meaning of .) then just use \N.