I would have thought that the return value of a successful chomp would be interpreted as "true", but it appears that it returns false.
According to the documentation for chomp:
It returns the total number of characters removed from all its arguments.
If there is no newline, for example, it returns 0; if there is a newline, it returns 1.

So, chomp $_ will return 1, which is true, which causes the ternary operator to return the 'true' result. In your non-working case, it returns the empty string. In your working case, it returns the $_ without the newline.

In reply to Re: return value of chomp is false? by toolic
in thread return value of chomp is false? by babel17

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