I'm looking at the following code, I can't figure out why: print "$1\n"; works. Where is $1 coming from? 
use strict;
use LWP 5.64;

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $url = 'http://www.cpan.org/RECENT.html';
my $response = $broswer->get($url);

die "Can't get $url -- ", $response->status_line
   unless $response->is_success;

my $html = $response->content;
while( $html =~m/<A HREF=\"(.*?)\"/g) {
   print "$1\n";
}

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How is $1 getting its value?

This some example code from the book "Spidering Hacks" and I'm not sure if it's a typo or something I'm missing.

Thanks
Adam

Update: Ahh I see, m//the expression is returning a list of matched values, with the first match it stores the (.*?) value at $1. Got it. Thanks.

In reply to How is this printing? by awohld

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