in reply to Re: Perl's POD's description of the use of capturing special variables.
in thread Perl's POD's description of the use of capturing special variables.

I think you meant 
/(\d+)/ and print $1;
# or
print $1 if /(\d+)/;
# and
print $numb if defined $numb;
# since 0 is false

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