regular expression help with apostrophe

[Paul Lalli]

This example does not have anything to do with the $1...$9 variables.
There are only 9 of them,

Who on earth told you that?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
no strict 'refs';
use warnings;

$_ = join '', 'a'..'z';
/(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.
)(.)(.)/;
for (1..26){
print "${$_}\n";
}
__END__


Paul Lalli

 

[Ted Zlatanov]

Who on earth told you that?

In my defense, there ARE only 9 of the $1 ... $9 variables

But yes, my mistake. Sorry. It was too early in the morning.

Ted

 

[Anno Siegel]

In my defense, there ARE only 9 of the $1 ... $9 variables

You mean the backreferences \1 ... \9.

Anno

 

[Ted Zlatanov]

You mean the backreferences \1 ... \9.

I originally meant the backreferences and got confused, but my (lame)
joke was that there ARE only 9 variables from $1 to $9

Consider me chastised.

Ted