Download Text File into String Variable

Download a text file directly into a string variable.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True)

set ftp = CreateObject("Chilkat.Ftp2")

'  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
success = ftp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox ftp.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

'  Connect and login to the FTP server.
success = ftp.Connect()
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox ftp.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Change to the remote directory where the existing file is located.
success = ftp.ChangeRemoteDir("junk")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox ftp.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Download the contents of the remote file into memory.

remoteFilename = "hamletQuote.txt"

fileContents = ftp.GetRemoteFileTextData(remoteFilename)
If (fileContents = vbNullString ) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText)
Else
    outFile.WriteLine(fileContents)
End If

ftp.Disconnect 


outFile.Close