Perl

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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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  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.

$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;
}

#  Download a UTF-8 text file.  A byte-order mark for the selected encoding is recognized and
#  omitted from the returned text.
$fileText = $ftp->getRemoteFileTextC("public_html/readme.txt","utf-8");
if ($ftp->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print $fileText . "\r\n";

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