Oh sorry, you're absolutely right. That was a bad edit. I'd blame my right hand fingers being bound up, but it's just sloppy proof reading. :\
Yes, I really meant $1. The code I culled out reuses the string captured in $1 because I'm having problems crafting a single line Regex that parses the string correctly (A subject for a different posting). I was trying to fix that bug when I came across this bug.
Now that I understand why I have this bug, I can focus on that bug. :)