i am trying to create an object for a module through the following method.

my %args = ( hostname => "router", version = "1" );
my $s = &create_snmp(\%args);

sub create_snmp {
  my $args = shift;

  my %options;

  $options{hostname} = $args->{hostname};
  $options{version} = $args->{version};

  if ($args->{version} == "1") {

    $options{community} = "public";

  } else { 
  
    $options{username} = "v3user";
    $options{password} = "v3pass";

  }

  my $new_session = Net::SNMP->session(\%options);

  return $new_session;
}
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This fails and the object is not set. Is this possible and my syntax incorrect, or do I need to look for other ways to correctly return the value?

thanks -c