Thanks for the suggestion. This module seems to have a lot of functionality, so I definitely thought the try worth the effort. I'm calling it differently now and get a different error:

Permission denied (publickey,password).
object created, back in main

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sub get_ftp_object{
use strict;
use Net::SFTP::Foreign;
use 5.01;
my $sub_hash = "my_sftp";
my $domain = $config{$sub_hash}->{'domain'};
my $username = $config{$sub_hash}->{'username'};
my $password = $config{$sub_hash}->{'password'};
my $port = 22;
#dial up the server

say "values are $domain $username $password";
my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new( $domain, user => $username,
port => $port, password => $password)
  or die "Can't connect: $!\n";

  return $sftp;
}

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I seem to have gotten farther but don't understand why I didn't die here, as execution goes back to main. (?)

In reply to Re^2: instantiating an SFTP object by Aldebaran
in thread instantiating an SFTP object by Aldebaran

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