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Download an FTP File as Text with a Charset

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.GetRemoteFileTextC method, which downloads a remote file, decodes the bytes using a named charset, and returns the text. The first argument is the remote filename and the second is the charset. A byte-order mark for the selected encoding is recognized and omitted.

Background: This is the encoding-aware way to read a remote text file: you name the charset (utf-8, iso-8859-1, and so on) so multibyte and accented characters decode correctly, and a leading BOM is stripped automatically. Prefer it over GetRemoteFileTextData whenever the file's encoding is known, which is almost always.

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llSuccess = .F.

//  Demonstrates the Ftp2.GetRemoteFileTextC method, which downloads a remote file, decodes the
//  bytes using a named charset, and returns the text.  The 1st argument is the remote filename
//  and the 2nd is the charset.

loFtp = createobject("CkFtp2")

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"

llSuccess = loFtp.Connect()
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    release loFtp
    return
endif

//  Download a UTF-8 text file.  A byte-order mark for the selected encoding is recognized and
//  omitted from the returned text.
lcFileText = loFtp.GetRemoteFileTextC("public_html/readme.txt","utf-8")
if (loFtp.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    release loFtp
    return
endif

? lcFileText

llSuccess = loFtp.Disconnect()
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    release loFtp
    return
endif



release loFtp