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in reply to "chomp" not working

as always in such a case, I'd recommend to look what you really have in your variable. with a normal print you only see printable characters.
use Data::Dumper;
local $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; # will also print \r, \n etc.
print Dumprt $var;

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from HTML forms you typically get a carriage return and a newline.

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