Upload Text to an FTP Server (StringBuilder)

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads it to a remote path. The arguments are the StringBuilder, the charset, whether to include a byte-order mark, and the remote file path.

Background: The text-oriented upload: assemble a document — CSV, config, JSON — in a StringBuilder and the method handles encoding as it writes. The charset governs the bytes actually stored, and the byte-order-mark flag is useful when a consuming Windows application expects a BOM.

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bool success = false;

//  Demonstrates the Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads
//  it to a remote path.  The 1st argument is the StringBuilder, the 2nd is the charset, the 3rd
//  selects whether a byte-order mark is included, and the 4th is the remote file path.

Chilkat.Ftp2 ftp = new Chilkat.Ftp2();

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com";
ftp.Username = "myFtpLogin";

//  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
//  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
ftp.Password = "myPassword";

success = ftp.Connect();
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Build the text to upload.
Chilkat.StringBuilder sb = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();
sb.Append("name,quantity\n");
sb.Append("widgets,42\n");

//  Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
bool includeBom = false;
success = ftp.PutFileSb(sb,"utf-8",includeBom,"public_html/inventory.csv");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Uploaded text file.");

success = ftp.Disconnect();
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText);
    return;
}