SFTP Compile Errors

btobin0 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I trying to use the Net::SFTP and I am getting errors:

 
"requires explicit package name"

Please help.
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use strict;
use warnings;

package Net::SFTP;
my %args = (ssh_args => {});
$args(user) = $user
$args(password) = $password
$args(ssh_args)->(port) = 22;
my $sftp = Net::SFTP->($host, %args);


my $user = 'test@testserver';
my $password = 'password';
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Re: SFTP Compile Errors by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 29, 2008 at 08:51 UTC
You don't tell us the full error message. Perl also told you, what requires the explicit package name. Your code is riddled with logical and syntactical errors: The syntax for accessing or setting a hash entry uses squiggly brackets, not parentheses. Use `$args{user}` instead of `$args(user)` which makes no sense. Some of your lines do not end with a semicolon even though the statement seems to be complete at the line. You set and declare `$user` and `$password` later than you use them. This is likely what Perl complains about. You need to move these lines upwards in your program. You call `Net::SFTP->($host, %args);`, but I don't know what it should do. Maybe you can tell us what you expect it to do and where in the Net::SFTP documentation you found that.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: SFTP Compile Errors by stiller (Friar) on Feb 29, 2008 at 08:49 UTC
You declare `package Net::SFTP`, but you should `use Net::SFTP`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: SFTP Compile Errors by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 29, 2008 at 08:47 UTC
`$args(user) ^ ^` [download] Those need to be curly braces.	[reply] [d/l]