In addition to the other resources mentioned in this thread, I would suggest the best document to read before going any further with Perl would be perlintro, which contains a section about writing subroutines. The value in perlintro is that it contains just enough on a broad range of Perl topics to inform the rest of your progress toward learning the language, yet takes less than a half hour to read in its entirety.

Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes is another gem; one that the Mojolicious project lists in its documentation as reference material for people newly coming to Perl.

perlintro takes 20-30 minutes to read. Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes takes...well, 2 hours and 30 minutes. But the sections on subroutines take about 5 minutes total, and should help you to come to a better understanding.

For your specific case, you need something like this:

sub SSHApp {
    my ($MyUser, $MyPass, $MyIP) = @_;

    # ...the rest of your code goes here.
    # You probably need:
    #    my $output = $ssh_1->cmd('sh version');

    return $output;
}

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Dave

In reply to Re: subroutine For ssh by davido
in thread subroutine For ssh by GHMON

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