For starters, declaring my $ret twice in the same scope isn't going to work as expected. Consider this: 
sub myohmy {
  my $y = shift;
  my $x = "true" if ($y);
  my $x = "not true" if (!$y);
  return $x;
}
print "myohmy(0) = ", myohmy(0), "\n";
print "myohmy(1) = ", myohmy(1), "\n";
__END__
# outputs:
myohmy(0) = not true
myohmy(1) =

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use warnings will catch this problem. To fix it you'll need to re-write it as: 
  my $ret;
  $ret = ... if ($put_try == 0);
  $ret = ... if ($put_try > 0);

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but I'd probably just use an if...else... construct.

Another issue with your retry logic is that if you want to recover from a failed put by appending data, you need to:

  1. figure out how much data was transfered by the put operation.
  2. open the source file and seek to that location
  3. perform an append operation using the opened file handle (as opposed to the source file's name)
It might be easier just to re-put the file (depending on its size.)

In reply to Re: NET::FTP put()/append() error handling by pc88mxer
in thread NET::FTP put()/append() error handling by Viki@Stag

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