in reply to Re: How to remove last character of a line
in thread How to remove last character of a line

Note that both chomp() and chop() modify their argument in-place and return the removed character.

No, only chop returns the removed character. chomp returns the total number of characters removed.

Edit: Made first sentence more specific.

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