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See Coping with Scoping.

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Re^2: A regex BR variable dead in following line/command
by haukex (Archbishop) on Nov 12, 2021 at 15:00 UTC
    See Coping with Scoping.

    Although that explains local, it unfortunately doesn't explain what's going on in the OP's example (that $1 and friends are dynamically scoped).

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      Indeed so. It was meant more as a suggested answer to abdan's second question rather than their first.

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