in reply to Re: how to chop last character from a string
in thread how to chop last character from a string

Why add a chomp, if you are already regexping just give it a 
$arg =~ s/\*\n?$//;

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if you actually want to get rid of trailing newlines.... maybe add a \r? for completeness' sake

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