Hi
Just one week ago I started writing my first module, thus my knowledge may not be that of a Saint ...
Nevertheless
First I believe you have to give your module a name by provding a line like

package mytest;
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Then I understood that an instance of that Class/Package would keep it's contents in a hash, thus I'd put the name-variable in this hash:

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {};
    my $self->{name} = ""; # later assign this var with 'Yoda'
    bless $self,$class;
    return $self;
}
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Hope this helps.

Regards
Stefan K

$dom = "skamphausen.de";   ##   May The Open Source Be With You!
$Mail = "mail@$dom;  $Url = "http://www.$dom";
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