Perl

Append Text to a Remote FTP File (StringBuilder)

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.AppendFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and appends the bytes to a remote file. The arguments are the remote filename, the StringBuilder, and the charset.

Background: When you have accumulated several lines or records in a StringBuilder, this appends them to a remote file in one call, encoding as it writes. It pairs naturally with building up text in memory and flushing it to a remote log periodically.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Ftp2.AppendFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and
#  appends the bytes to a remote file.  The 1st argument is the remote filename, the 2nd is the
#  StringBuilder, and the 3rd is the charset.

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_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->put_Password("myPassword");

$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$sb = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sb->Append("appended line one\n");
$sb->Append("appended line two\n");

$success = $ftp->AppendFileSb("logs/app.log",$sb,"utf-8");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Appended text." . "\r\n";

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}