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in thread Strange behavior: passing $1 to AUTOLOAD

Function parameters are passed by reference. This means @_ contained $1 which is modified by any successful regex. You can modify values in @_ directly to watch this.

Most of the time you aren't passing something like $1 in and don't have to worry about the issue you ran into

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