If you look into the get routine in FTP.pm, you'll see that it's reading a buffer, then writing it to the passed-in filehandle. If you just want to hack on it, make your own copy and save the buffer in the *ftp object and return that. Or, to be closer to "production", inherit FTP into a wrapper object and override get().

In the end, it's probably easier to write to a temporary file and parse that. The time to write and read the local file will almost certainly be a tiny fraction of the ftp connect and transmit time.

(update) If you really want to get into it, you could look at Net::FTPServer.  That lets you write your own site commands.  You could do "SITE PARSE filename" and let the server parse the file and send back a 200 response with the needed data.  Now, that would be an efficiency!

  p

In reply to Re: Use Net::FTP to get a file and parse it without saving the file locally by petral
in thread Use Net::FTP to get a file and parse it without saving the file locally by Anonymous Monk

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