Perl

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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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  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.

$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;
}

#  Build the text to upload.
$sb = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sb->Append("name,quantity\n");
$sb->Append("widgets,42\n");

#  Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
$includeBom = 0;
$success = $ftp->PutFileSb($sb,"utf-8",$includeBom,"public_html/inventory.csv");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Uploaded text file." . "\r\n";

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