in reply to Questions about split
I may be wrong, but I don't think you are supposed to have those brackets around your offset. Another way to do what you want is simply to do something like...
Or maybe I've misunderstood something
my($user, $var) = split /:/, $_, 2; $foo{$user} = $var;
Or maybe I've misunderstood something
$_.=($=+(6<<1));print(chr(my$a=$_));$^H=$_+$_;$_=$^H; print chr($_-39); # Easy but its ok.
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