Re^3: How to use __DATA__ efficiently, help!

I am getting weird numbers in the middle of the html code; 1 and 11, using:

while (<DATA>) { 
    $_.=s/<--date\/\/>/$date/;
    $_.=s/<--loc\/\/>/$location/;
    $data .= $_ 
 }
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Any ideas why?

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Re^4: How to use __DATA__ efficiently, help! by Anonyrnous Monk (Hermit) on Feb 09, 2011 at 20:02 UTC
`$_.=s/<--date\/\/>/$date/;` [download] You probably meant `$_ =~ s/<--date\/\/>/$date/; ...` [download] or just (as `$_` is the default anyway) `s/<--date\/\/>/$date/; ...` [download] s/// returns the number of substitutions made, so as you have it, you're appending that number to `$_`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]