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Built-In Functions Chomp

The chomp() function removes the last NEWLINE (\n) character of each item

Scalar context

$foo = "Hello\n";
chomp( $foo );
# $foo is now "Hello"

List context

@foo = ( "Goodbye\n", "cruell", "world\n" );
chomp( @foo );
# @foo is now ( "Goodbye", "cruell", "world" )

Notice chomp does NOT remove more than "\n" characters!