Fellow monks,
I am using Text::Bastardize to output user input in pig latin. But, I am encountering a problem
When I assign `<>' to a scalar, and assign the scalar to `$_', it works fine. but when I `chomp' <>, it will not work.
Sample code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Text::Bastardize;

my $line = <>;
$_ = $line;
my $latin = Text::Bastardize->new();
$latin->charge($_);
print $latin->pig(),"\n"
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That code works; but outputs with an appended newline.

When I use:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Text::Bastardize;

my $line = <>;
$_ = chomp($line);
my $latin = Text::Bastardize->new();
$latin->charge($_);
print $latin->pig(),"\n"
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It doesn't output anything. I do not know whether I am making a basic error, or if Text::Bastardize's `charge' doesn't like the use of chomp for some reason

Please help :)

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