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    \1 better written as $1
    
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        (W syntax) Outside of patterns, backreferences live on as variable
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        The use of backslashes is grandfathered on the right-hand side of 
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        substitution, but stylistically it's better to use the variable fo
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        because other Perl programmers will expect it, and it works better
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        there are more than 9 backreferences.