I smell a use for supersplit here. These days it's also available on CPAN: SuperSplit!

use SuperSplit;

$pwd = supersplit_open( ':', '/etc/passwd' );
$pwd = [map [@$_[6,7]], @$pwd ];           #Or do you mean 5,6?
print superjoin( "\n", $pwd );            #I'd leave the \n out
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chipmunk, is this a valid plug ;-)?

Jeroen
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