$/ = "\n>";
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That is also clumsy, for several reasons:

1. You have to delete the trailing ">", at the end of every string (but the last)
2. You have to delete the leading ">", at the start of every line
3. You still have to delete every newline, and chomp won't work, because of the changed setting for $/.

Oh well. Such is life.

s/^>//;
s/>$//;
tr/<n//d;
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