I use the following code to greet people that visits my webpage if they already have a cookie stored by my website in their pc. The problem now is that $cookie{xronos} has inside it spaces an because of that it apperars in the webpage when i print it like this: "Sun%20May%2030%2001%3A55".

What can i do about it?

And also if you see something else that is wrong in this piece of code or you have a better way of writing this please let me know. Thanks. 
if ( $file = param("choice") )
{
   open(FILE, "../data/texts/$file") or die $!;
      @data = <FILE>;
   close(FILE);

   $data = join("", @data);
}
elsif ( $ENV{HTTP_COOKIE} )
{
   @cookieArray = split( ';', $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} );
   
   foreach ( @cookieArray ) {
      ($cookieName, $cookieValue) = split ( '=', $_ );
      $cookie{$cookieName} = $cookieValue;
   }

   $data = "Καλώς ήρθες " .$host. "! Χαίρομαι ειλικρινά που σε ξαναβλέ
+πω!\n" .
           "Τελευταία φορα ήρθες εδώ ως " .$cookie{host}. "!\n" .
       "Αυτή είναι η " .$cookie{xronos}. " φορά που επισκέφτεσαι την σ
+ελίδα μου και χαίρομαι πολύ που την βρίσκεις ενδιαφέρουσα!\n" .
           "Ποιό κείμενο θα ήθελες να μελετήσεις αυτήν τη φορά ?!?";
}
elsif ( !$ENV{HTTP_COOKIE} )
{
   $data = "Καλώς ήρθες " .$host. "! Ανοίγοντας το παραπάνω drop-down 
+menu επέλεξε το κείμενο που θα ήθελες να διαβάσεις...";
}

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