Perl

Get Filenames in a Remote Directory

Gets the names of files in a remote FTP directory. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

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

$ftp->Hostname('ftp.example.com');
$ftp->Username('myLogin');
$ftp->Password('myPassword');
# Use explicit TLS
$ftp->AuthTls(1);
$ftp->Port(21);

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
my $success = $ftp->Connect();
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Iterate over .txt files.
$ftp->ListPattern('*.txt');
my $n = $ftp->GetDirCount();
print 'n = ', $n, "\n";

my $i = 0;
while ($i < $n) {
    print $i, ': ', $ftp->GetFilename($i), "\n";

    $i = $i + 1;
}