my $configFile="/home/testuser/perl/config.properties";
...
chomp $splitLine[1];
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The file contains Windows newlines (\r\n), but you only remove the trailing newline \n, leaving the \r at the end.

Instead of chomp, remove all whitespace from the end of each line:

$splitLine[1] =~ s!\s*$!!;
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