Another potentially confusing variation would be if list context was used since the match will return the list of matched sub-expressions. In the example below, $input is assigned a value for each iteration wheras $1 is only changed on a good match.
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $input;
while (<DATA>)
{
($input) = /(\w+)/;
print "\$input=$input\t\$1=$1\n";
}
__DATA__
Hello
World
Output:
$input=Hello $1=Hello
$input= $1=Hello
$input=World $1=World
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