So, I just went and upgraded to a newer libnet in the hopes that it would handle filenames with spaces better. (As per Spaces in file names with Net::FTP) Unfortunately, I couldn't find any examples which showed -how- people made the newer Net::FTP work with spaces in filenames. Of course, I'm trying to build the filenames on the fly (with timestamps), instead of just a 'string filename'.
My current code is as follows:

my @type = ('farm\ &\ ranch', 'land', 'residential');
my $server = 'not.the.real.server.net';
my $c = Net::FTP->new($server);

$c->login('username', 'password') or die "couldn't log in: $!\n";

for my $i (0..2) {
  $c->get("listings-$type[$i].txt.gz");
  for my $j (0..6) {
    my $k = timestamp($j);
    $c->get("pics-$type[$i]-$k.tar");
  }
}

$c->quit();

exit;

sub timestamp() {
  my $days = shift @_;
  my @today = localtime(time - (86400 * $days));
  $today[4]++;
  $today[5] += 1900;
  return sprintf("%04d%02d%02d", @today[5,4,3]);
}

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I'm sure that this could be written more tightly. I'm far more interested in 'working' than 'tight' right now, since this needs to be working before I leave for a week this evening.

I have verified that I am connected to the server, am logged in correctly, and can download the other files that don't have spaces in them. Someone's got to know... please help.

In reply to Net::FTP and filenames with spaces by amelinda

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