[FWP] Greenhorn coding question

["Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@altoplanos.net>]

I'm a perl junkie - been peddling and using the stuff but not a major
dealer ... yet!

Did I do something wrong when I cut and pasted from the perlfaq4?  This
looks right to me but doesn't do as advertised.

If this isn't fun enough take it as a respite from the toils of funnin'
and perl for it was fun for me to pound and pound at it this AM.

# Code snippette starts

my $foo = 'foo';
my $bar = 'bar';

# From 'man perlfaq4'
$text = 'this has a $foo in it and a $bar';

# Why doesn't this work as advertised with perl 5.004_4 on a stock
# RedHat Linux 5.2 system with perl 5.004_4.
$text =~ s/\$(\w+)/${$1}/g;

print $text;

# Comes out as this has a  in it and

# but this does.
$test =~ s/(\$\w+)/$1/eeg;

print $test;

# Code snippette ends.

TIA,
Rod
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