chomp may not work if the filelist was manually created on a windows machine and you are running the script on unix. Suggest you try a regex instead.

open(IN,'file.txt') or die "$!";
my @files = <IN>;

foreach $page (@files) {
  $page =~ s/\s+$//g;
  print "parsing [$page]\n";
  # code
  
}
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