Re: email address as username

> it is throwing an error.

which error?

> $user = 'first.last@somewhere.com';

that's fine. You most likely did use double quotes instead

$user = "first.last@somewhere.com";

which will try to interpolate the array @somewhere.

But this is just a guess since you didn't give us details

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update

compare https://perlmaven.com/quoted-interpolated-and-escaped-strings-in-perl

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Re^2: email address as username by nateh (Initiate) on Oct 17, 2018 at 18:55 UTC
If I use single quotes, I get the error "Can't call method "login" on an undefined value at line x." Here's the relevant portion of the code: `use Net::FTP; my ($ftp, $host, $user, $pass, $dir, $fpath); $host = 'ftp.my.com'; $user = 'last.first@somewhere.com'; $pass = 'mypass'; $dir = '/my/file_path/onftp'; $fpath = 'myfileonserver_xml.zip'; $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host, Debug => 0); $ftp->login($user, $pass) \|\| die $ftp->message; ##this is line x## $ftp->cwd($dir); $ftp->put($fpath) \|\| die $ftp->message; $ftp->quit;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: email address as username by Marshall (Canon) on Oct 17, 2018 at 21:23 UTC
From the Net::FTP docs: `$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0) or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";` [download] Check for errors as shown in the docs. What does that say?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: email address as username by poj (Abbot) on Oct 17, 2018 at 19:02 UTC
You are missing a semi-colon from the end of this line. `use Net::FTP` poj	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: email address as username by nateh (Initiate) on Oct 17, 2018 at 19:18 UTC
Yes it was in my code correct with the ";". It was just a typo on my post.	[reply]
Re^3: email address as username by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Oct 17, 2018 at 19:23 UTC
You are getting the error on your first use of the `$ftp` object. That means the construction of it in the line above failed, where you specified `$ftp = Net::FTP->new($host, Debug => 0);` I can't see from here why it failed, you will have to debug if you can reach `$host` using some other method to ftp for instance. Cheers, Sören Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere. (hooked on the Perl Programming language)	[reply]


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