Visual FoxPro

Get a Raw Text Directory Listing (LIST)

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.GetTextDirListing method, which sends a legacy LIST request and returns the server's raw textual listing. The only argument is appended literally as a server-side listing argument; an empty string lists the current remote directory.

Background: This returns exactly what the server's LIST command produces — usually a Unix ls -l-style block, but the format is server-defined and not standardized. That makes it handy for display or debugging, but fragile to parse; prefer GetXmlDirListing or the index-based accessors when you need structured data. Since the argument is appended literally to LIST, it can carry server-specific options as well as a wildcard.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loFtp
LOCAL lcListing

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the Ftp2.GetTextDirListing method, which sends a legacy LIST request and returns
*  the server's raw textual listing.  The only argument is appended literally as a server-side
*  listing argument; an empty string lists the current remote directory.

loFtp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Ftp2')

loFtp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
loFtp.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.
loFtp.Password = "myPassword"

lnSuccess = loFtp.Connect()
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loFtp.ChangeRemoteDir("public_html")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Get the raw listing text.  The format is server-defined (often Unix "ls -l" style).
lcListing = loFtp.GetTextDirListing("")
IF (loFtp.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcListing

lnSuccess = loFtp.Disconnect()
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

RELEASE loFtp