Help with this regex in Perl

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dnewbie

Can someone explain me how to understand this part of the code
The code is extracted from pfLogSumm.pl a log analyzer for postfix mail

Code:
while(<>) {
next if(defined($dateStr) && ! /^$dateStr/o);
s/: \[ID \d+ [^\]]+\] /: /o; # lose "[ID nnnnnn some.thing]" stuff
my $logRmdr;

more code

}
I can't undestand what the regex is doing because don't have a assigment, don't have a conditional, simple is there

:confused:Thanks:confused:

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