Hello all, I'm seeing some confusing behavior with <STDIN> in my script (on Win 10 / Strawberry Perl), prompting for user input.

print "song: $string\n Correct? y/n: ";
my $res = <STDIN>;
chomp($res);

if($res =~ /n/i){
    print "Enter correct text: ";
    $str  = <STDIN>;
    chomp $str;
    print "new: ", $str, $/;
}

print "str: ", $str, $/;
my $newfile = "$str.mp3";
print "newfile: $newfile\n";

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The output looks like this, if I enter 'ssss' as STDIN: 

song: Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Nu Message
 Correct? y/n: n
Enter correct text: ssss
new: sssss
str: sssss

.mp3ile: ssss

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Note on the last line that ".mp3" jumps to the beginning of the line in the output (and variable value doesn't include it). That is, it should print "newfile: ssss.mp3". Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks as always.

In reply to Strange behavior with STDIN by slugger415

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