Hi monks,

Reading Perl documentation i learned that the chomp function chomps the hash's values, but not its keys.
Obviously that's right but i have used a snippet like the following to build an hash from a file:

chomp (my %an_hash=<A_File>);

And also in this case it chomps only the values.
To obtain an hash from a file with keys and values both chomped i have used a chunk of code like this:

my %an_hash;

while (<A_FILE>) {
 chomp;
 chomp(my $tmpvalue=<A_FILE>);
 $an_hash{$_}=$tmpvalue;
}
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It works but it seems too much complicated, the former snippet don't work fine but it's really short and simple.
Can someone suggest to me a simpler (or shorter) solution?

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