I am trying to create a 3 member list from <STDIN>. All I get is the number 3. I even copied what was in the book, (Learning Perl 7th ed), and to no avail. I am running perl 5.22 Below is my code. Any help greatly appreciated ! 
 say "Please enter 3 string variables, :"  . "(Please crtl-D after ent
+ering strings)\n ";
   @lines = <STDIN>;
   say 'Here ' . @lines;
   chomp(@lines);
   @backwards = reverse(@lines); 
   say "Here are the values in reverse order:" . @backwards;

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And here is the output:

Please enter 3 string variables, :(Please crtl-D after entering string
+s)
 
aaa
bbb
ccc
Here 3
Here are the values in reverse order:3

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