I think I was getting confused with JavaScript syntax myself there. Quotes will force a number to be a string in JS. But the day it's a variable, not just a constant, in those quotes, it will cause huge problems, won't it?
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($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;
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