$ perl -e 'my $1;' Can't use global $1 in "my" at -e line 1, near "my $1" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. $ perl -e 'my $1 = 42;' Can't use global $1 in "my" at -e line 1, near "my $1 " Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. #### use diagnostics;