Download Text File into String Variable

Download a text file directly into a string variable.

Download Chilkat FTP2 ActiveX

LOCAL loFtp
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lcFileContents
LOCAL lcRemoteFilename

loFtp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Ftp2')

* Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
lnSuccess = loFtp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loFtp.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

loFtp.Hostname = "www.example-code.com"
loFtp.Username = "example-code.com"
loFtp.Password = "****"
loFtp.Passive = 1

* Connect and login to the FTP server.
lnSuccess = loFtp.Connect()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loFtp.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

* Change to the remote directory where the existing file is located.
lnSuccess = loFtp.ChangeRemoteDir("junk")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loFtp.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

* Download the contents of the remote file into memory.

lcRemoteFilename = "hamletQuote.txt"

lcFileContents = loFtp.GetRemoteFileTextData(lcRemoteFilename)
* An empty string indicates a failure. If it is possible
* that the file could be an empty file on the server,
* you call GetSizeByName to check.  The ftp.GetSizeByname
* method accepts a filename and returns the size of the
* remote file or -1 if it does not exist or if there is an error.

loFtp.Disconnect()

? lcFileContents