Nope... chomp returns number of chars chopped. So:
$t = "t\n"; $num = chomp($t); print "$num"
prints "1", whereas:
$t = "t"; $num = chomp($t); print "$num"
prints "", whereas:

@t = ("t\n","u\n","v","w\n");
$num = chomp(@t); print "$num";
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prints "3".

(edited: error in my code fixed)