Equivalent of Perl chomp?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <86aduup3zu.fsf at k0dez.scriptkiddie.net>,
A Meowbot  <meowbot at meowing.net> wrote:
>Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> in dos text mode, all cr-lf sequences are translated into lf upon
>> reading and lf into cr-lf upon writing, at file i/o time. unless you
>> are using binary mode, in which no translation is done. so even in
>> dos, the strings you have in memory always end in lf (when read from a
>> file opened in text mode).
>
>Where things get yucky is when you are reading a Microsoft-formatted
>file or a network stream under Unix, where there is no difference
>between text and binary.  It's for those all-too-common cases that
>both line endings need to be taken into account.
>
>I don't even want to talk about the Apple CR thing.

How does Perl deal with this?
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