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The goal was a replacement for <FILE>, so anything that doesn't return what <FILE> would is buggy. … I didn't consider autochomping a bug.

O.K., that clarification gives me enough context where you were heading to.

An added chomp($data) before the split /\n/,,-1 will also conform to that abstraction of lines.

Update: Added the missing ,-1