You are close, but you have to print the data into the filehandle first. The following would work, were it not for the fact Net::FTP hangs while putting (not like there is alot of choice). 
### i know this does not work, i am showing the idea
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($server,$user,$pass);
$ftp->cwd("/some/dir");
pipe(R,W);
$ftp->put(\*R,'filename');
print W "data here\n";
$ftp->quit;

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So, the other way is to fork a process and have it do the writting into W. Like the following (untested code ahead) : 
pipe(READ,WRITE);
$pid = fork();
if ($pid == 0) {
    ## child (read)
    close(WRITE);
    $ftp->cwd("/some/dir");
    $ftp->put(\*READ,'filename');
    $ftp->quit;
} else {
    ## parent (write)
    close(READ);
    ## ... do some cool processing for $data
    print WRITE $data;
    close(WRITE);
}

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... i have not tested this, but it should work. I guess if you are on unix you could also use mknod to make a named pipe, and use that.
can't sleep clowns will eat me
-- MZSanford

In reply to Re: ftp put without a local file by MZSanford
in thread ftp put without a local file by fsn

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