SPUG: Self referecing URL

[marlin]

I need to detect a catalog number in a text line and reference it to 
another page as a link. 

The text is $item_text. I want to swap the number (NUM + some digits)
with itself as a <A HREF> tag.

I tried...

$item_text =~ s/(NUM.*\s)/<A HREF=get_page.pl?cat_num=\1>\1</A>/g;
which sort of works except that the closing > after the \1 is ignored,
that is the tag never closes and the entire line is linked.

I'm missing something.

Thanks is advance for telling me what I'm missing.

Marlin Greene
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