Hi,

I'm very new to perl and somewhat new to programming, and I'd like to use perl to read 10.000s of files from a ftp server and run test on those files on my own computer and save the results. The problem is: I can connect to a fileserver, but I cannot change the subdirectory and make Perl find the files I want for me. My snipped of code I use for finding the files is obviously very flawed, but my head is exploding and I ran out of coffee.

Thank you!

    use strict;
    use warnings;
use File::Find;
use Net::FTP;
use Cwd;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.ncbi.nih.gov", Timeout => 30) or die "Can
+not connect to server: $@";   

my $dir = "/genomes/Bacteria";
$ftp->cwd($dir) or die "Cannot cd to " , $dir;
my @directories = $ftp->ls() or die "cannot list any DIRs";
my @files;
find( sub { push @files, $File::Find::name if /\.fna$/ }, @directories
+ ) or die "can't find shit";        

for(my $i=0; $i<@files; $i++){
print "$i","x hooray"
}

$ftp->quit;
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EDIT: working code, if anyone is interested:

use warnings;                                  
use strict;
use Net::FTP;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.ncbi.nih.gov", Timeout => 30) or die "Can
+not connect to server: $@";   

## login is mandatory, even if no user and password is specified:
$ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@') or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->m
+essage;

my $dir = '/genomes/Bacteria';

## move to the subdirectory:
$ftp->cwd($dir) or die "Cannot cd to " , $ftp->message();
#print "part 1\n";

my @dir_listing = $ftp->ls() or die $ftp->message;
## note: you need to save DIRs as arrays before you can search for spe
+cific 
## files or anything

my @files;
for(my $j=0; $j<@dir_listing; $j++){
    ##list all the files in subdirs:
    my @file_list = $ftp-> ls($dir_listing[$j]) or die $ftp->message;
    ##weed out all the files you want and put them in an array
    my @found_files = grep(/.fna/, @file_list);
    push (@files, @found_files);
    }

##Make a resultfile to print all the files to:
my $results = "D:/Genomes/results/filelist.dat";                      
+                 
open (OUTFILE, '>', $results)  or die "Cannot write $!n";     
    
for(my $i=0; $i<@files; $i++){
print OUTFILE "@files[$i]";
}
      
close (OUTFILE);

$ftp->quit;
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