Anonymous Monk,
As has already been pointed out, chomp does probably does not work the way you think.

• It removes trailing $/ from the end of the line
• It returns the number of chars removed
• It can work on a list
• In the case of a list, it will return total number removed

I do not believe just modifying $/ will work for you. For one, it will likely mess up reading in new files. Secondly, I am under the impression you want it to auto-detect if $/ should be "\n" or "\r\n" depending on what it is working on.
Here is a start:

BEGIN {
    *CORE::GLOBAL::chomp = sub {
        my $count;
        for ( @_ ) {
            $count += $_ =~ s/[\r\n]$//g;
        }
        return $count;
    }
}
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This breaks in a lot of ways.

• It will remove all trailing newlines instead of just one in the case of my $string = "foo\n\n\n"
• It doesn't see where it is supposed to stop working (without helping parens) in the case of print chomp $foo, "\n";
• Probably a lot of others I didn't find

Once fixed appropriately, this could be stuck in a module and then you could just use Chomp;

Cheers - L~R

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