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in reply to Manually adding delimiters instead of join()

If you are set on using :: as your separator, you would have to escape them like any other special characters. You could do something like this:

$users{$username}"$password\:\:$name\:\:$email\:\:$website\:\:$start"; Thanks
Greg W

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Re^2: Manually adding delimiters instead of join()
by periapt (Hermit) on Oct 13, 2004 at 12:23 UTC
    Alternately, since you only need to break up the :: variable interpolation 
    $users{$username} = "$password\::$name\::$email\::$website\::$start";

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    or even (although this isn't any better than join-not that there is anything wrong with join) 
    $password.'::'.$name.'::'.$email.'::'.$website.'::'.$start

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