Could someone please give me a chomp loop that will eliminate all newlines before i store the variables in a text file?

Assuming you are really interested in deleting trailing newlines,

  $message =~ s/[\r\n]+$//;
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will nuke them. With data that comes from textarea fields, you have to worry about both carriage returns and linefeeds, unless you first do something like

  $message =~ s/\r//g;
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to remove the hard returns, leaving you with Unix-friendly strings.