Hey, can I join the "what did tybalt89 mean?" game? Sounds like fun. :)

I think he meant that dazz needs to take a time out to read and understand perlretut and perlre before continuing. That you really need to understand what $0 and $1 mean, what they ought to contain, before printing them out and attempting to interpret their values. Hint: Read the Extracting Matches section at perlretut (and search for $0 and $1 in perlvar :).