in reply to Re: Net::FTP
in thread Net::FTP's get() does not handle wildcards

Dear monks, Thanks for the *very* helpful suggestions. I have decided to follow RMGir and Abigail's (duplicate node) suggestion, and grep through an ls to find the file that way. Sometimes I can't see these things and need a nudge in the right direction :) See code snippet below:

if (@dirlist = ($ftp->ls))
    {
      foreach $_ (@dirlist)
      {
        if (s/(\w+shar\d\d\d\d\d\d\.\d\d\d\d)/$1/)
        {
          $file = $1
        
          if ($ftp->get($file))  
          {
          }
  
          else
          {
        print "$host: Got directory listing, but couldn't get file.\n"
+;
          }
        }      
      }
    }

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It could probably be written a lot simpler than that, but I like to keep things in a format I can easily understand.

Thanks again.

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Re: Re: Re: Net::FTP
by nimdokk (Vicar) on Oct 03, 2003 at 10:05 UTC
    I think that there might be a problem with that. It might work, but I would suggest cleaning up one line a bit. Instead of:
    if (s/(\w+shar\d\d\d\d\d\d\.\d\d\d\d)/$1/)

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    I would suggest: 

    if (m/(\w+shar\d\d\d\d\d\d\.\d\d\d\d)/)

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    What you are doing with s/// is substituting your regular expression for $1. The parenthesis around the expression delimit(?) $1. So it would appear that you are substituting the regular expression for itself. Then of course setting your variable $file to be equal to $1. Note the m/// in the second if statement. Also, your regular expresion could match on more than one file that fit that pattern if several files fit that scheme.

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