Here's a snippet of code I've been using for a while, that cleans up a series of FTP sites by spinning through associative array (one entry for each site).

I wrote this years ago, before I knew any better way to do it, and it's been working fine.

To completely understand the code, you need to know that I have two arrays for each site... one stores the site address, and the other stores the login info.

So for ftp site 'example', then, you'd have:

$address{'example'} = "ftp.foobar.com";
$userpwd{'example'} = "    user foo bar\n";

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The code snippet to get all the files reads as follows:

$ftpcmd = "ftp -n " . $address{$myadd};
$ftpstr = $userpwd{$myadd};
open(TST,"|$ftpcmd");
print TST $ftpstr;
print TST "   prompt\n";
print TST "   mget *\n";
close(TST);

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I don't know that it's the best way to do it, but it's been working for me... I'd definately be open to suggestions for improving it.

Trek

In reply to Re: Using FTP Without any Modules by TrekNoid
in thread Using FTP Without any Modules by perl_devel

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