as for me, I'd use a little split action, as it looks like you are using colon-separated records. This has the advantage of isolating the fields from each other, allowing you to more easily (and safely) extract their content.

while(<>){
my ($id, $user_name, $p_id, $password) = split ':';
#do stuff to the stuff in $id and $p_id
}
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