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 strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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.

my $ftp = Chilkat2::Ftp2->new;

$ftp->Hostname('ftp.example.com');
$ftp->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->Password('myPassword');

my $success = $ftp->Connect();
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

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

print $fileText, "\n";

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}