Write Text to a Remote SFTP File (Sequential)

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Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.WriteFileText method, which encodes text using a charset and writes it at the current sequential write position of an open handle. The arguments are the handle, the charset, and the text.

Background: Chilkat tracks a write position per handle, so successive WriteFileText calls append naturally — the pattern for building a file a piece at a time, such as writing rows to a report. Opening with openOrCreate starts writing at the current end of the file. The charset determines the bytes actually stored, which matters whenever the text contains non-ASCII characters.

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    success := false

    //  Demonstrates the SFtp.WriteFileText method, which encodes text and writes it at the current
    //  sequential write position of an open handle.  The 1st argument is the handle, the 2nd is the
    //  charset, and the 3rd is the text.

    sftp := chilkat.NewSFtp()

    //  Connect, authenticate, and initialize the SFTP subsystem.
    port := 22
    success = sftp.Connect("sftp.example.com",port)
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(sftp.LastErrorText())
        sftp.DisposeSFtp()
        return
    }

    //  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.
    password := "mySshPassword"

    success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password)
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(sftp.LastErrorText())
        sftp.DisposeSFtp()
        return
    }

    success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(sftp.LastErrorText())
        sftp.DisposeSFtp()
        return
    }

    //  Open (creating/truncating) the remote file for writing.
    handle := sftp.OpenFile("subdir/notes.txt","writeOnly","createTruncate")
    if sftp.LastMethodSuccess() == false {
        fmt.Println(sftp.LastErrorText())
        sftp.DisposeSFtp()
        return
    }

    //  Write text as UTF-8.  Successive writes continue from where the previous write ended.
    success = sftp.WriteFileText(*handle,"utf-8","First line.\n")
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(sftp.LastErrorText())
        sftp.DisposeSFtp()
        return
    }

    success = sftp.WriteFileText(*handle,"utf-8","Second line.\n")
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(sftp.LastErrorText())
        sftp.DisposeSFtp()
        return
    }

    success = sftp.CloseHandle(*handle)
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(sftp.LastErrorText())
        sftp.DisposeSFtp()
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("Wrote text file.")

    sftp.Disconnect()

    sftp.DisposeSFtp()