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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  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 = New-Object Chilkat.Ftp2

$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"

$success = $ftp.Connect()
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($ftp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Build the text to upload.
$sb = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sb.Append("name,quantity`n")
$sb.Append("widgets,42`n")

#  Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
$includeBom = $false
$success = $ftp.PutFileSb($sb,"utf-8",$includeBom,"public_html/inventory.csv")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($ftp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Uploaded text file.")

$success = $ftp.Disconnect()
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($ftp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}