Cookie Problem

Hello,

I'm trying to pass a cookie value as a string. IE:

$cookie_string = "$params->{username}|$params->{password}|$time|$time";

$cookie =
$cgi->cookie(-name=>'cookie_name',-value="$cookie_string",-expires=>'+1y');

But this is the result I get:

 test22%7C123456%7C1122932023%7C112293202
3

I'm trying to eliminate the '%7C' character so it has the pipe '|' character
instead. I've tried to do a JOIN:
join("\|",$params->{username},$params->{password},$time,$time);
same results. Tried to use the unescape($cookie_string), again the same resu
lts.
Is there a way to pass the cookie string and retain the pipe character '|'
without it being changed to the '%7C' character.

TIA,

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Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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