Default mode is to download in Binary, you can specify Ascii like this:
my($file) = get("ftp://user:password@ftp.somewhere.com/pub/somefile.txt;type=a");

Here is Simple.pm:

package Net::FTP::Simple;

require Exporter;

use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK $VERSION);

@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw();
@EXPORT_OK = qw(get);
$VERSION = '0.01';

use URI;
use Net::FTP::Scalar;

$Net::FTP::Scalar::SCALAR_MODE = 1;

sub get {
    my($url) = shift();

    my($uri) = URI->new($url);

    my($user) = $uri->user();
    my($pass) = $uri->password();
    my($host) = $uri->host();
    my($port) = $uri->port();

    my($ftp) = Net::FTP::Scalar->new($host, Debug => 0) || warn("new()
+ '$host' failed: $@") && return();

    $ftp->login($user, $pass) || warn("login() '$user' failed: $@") &&
+ return();

    my(@path) = grep { length() } $uri->path_segments();
    my($file) = pop(@path);

    my($type);

    if (ref($file)) {
        my(@params);
        ($file, @params) = @$file;
        foreach (@params) {
            $type = $_ if (s/^type=//);
        }
    }


    if (defined($type) && $type eq 'a') {
        $ftp->ascii();
    } else {
        $ftp->binary();
    }
    
    foreach (@path) {
        $ftp->cwd($_) || warn("cwd() '$_' failed: $@") && return();
    }
    
    unless ($ftp->get($file)) {
        $ftp->quit();
        warn("get() '$file' failed: $@");
        return();
    }

    return($Net::FTP::Scalar::OUT_FILE);
}

return(1);
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Staunch

dep.

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Sorry, I wasn't asking you to necessarily write it. Just wondering if you thought it was a good idea or not.

My skills are definitely not up to your level, but I think I'll take a crack at it tonight utilizing your module.

Thanks again.

Staunch

Well, about 45 minutes into getting URI to properly break down an ftp URL and making it work with Net::FTP::Scalar I was digging through LWP::* trying to find an example of using $uri->path_segments(). I found a good example. In fact I found exactly what I was trying to do. Then I realized: LWP::Simple supports FTP.

I should have known..after all this is Perl. perl -e 'use LWP::Simple qw(get); print(get("ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt"));' Staunch