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Upload Text to an FTP Server (StringBuilder)

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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llSuccess = .F.

//  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.

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

//  Build the text to upload.
loSb = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
loSb.Append("name,quantity" + Chr(10))
loSb.Append("widgets,42" + Chr(10))

//  Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
llIncludeBom = .F.
llSuccess = loFtp.PutFileSb(loSb,"utf-8",llIncludeBom,"public_html/inventory.csv")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    release loFtp
    release loSb
    return
endif

? "Uploaded text file."

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



release loFtp
release loSb