Download Text File into String Variable

Download a text file directly into a string variable.

Download Chilkat Perl Module

use chilkat;

$ftp = new chilkat::CkFtp2();

# Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
$success = $ftp->UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$ftp->put_Hostname("www.example-code.com");
$ftp->put_Username("example-code.com");
$ftp->put_Password("****");
$ftp->put_Passive(1);

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

# Change to the remote directory where the existing file is located.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir("junk");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

# Download the contents of the remote file into memory.

$remoteFilename = "hamletQuote.txt";

$fileContents = $ftp->getRemoteFileTextData($remoteFilename);
# 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.

$ftp->Disconnect();

print $fileContents . "\r\n";