To elaborate a little bit on why you'd get this strange behavior, Windows encodes line endings as CR/LF, that is a carriage-return (return to the beginning of the line) followed by a linefeed (advance to the next line). So if you strip off just the linefeed, you end up with this in your string: 
FORM<CR> is the symbol<LF>

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That tells your terminal to print FORM, then return the cursor to the beginning of the line and print is the symbol---which is now right on top of FORM---and finally advance to the next line.

If you pipe this through less, od, or hexdump, you should be able to see this is what's going on.

In reply to Re^2: chomp problem by sgifford
in thread chomp problem by piranhas

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