BatGnat has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am having a problem trying to get my head around how to do what I need to do.
I am using Net::FTP and have connected to a DG Mainframe. What I want to do is list in the files and stats using a $ftp->dir(path).
The problem is that when DG's returns the data it is like this
GS_ERROR_LOG UDF 20-May-01 0:56:18 1958 
FTPA.22_50_22.MDM 
PRV 8-May-01 22:50:22 772096

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As you can see, when the 2nd filename is listed, because it is over a predefined length, it wraps the stats to the next line. I need to put the stats in a hash. I cant get my head around how to do this easily.
Please help me!

BatGnat
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Re: Net::FTP and a DG Mainframe
by princepawn (Parson) on May 24, 2001 at 13:59 UTC
    It appears that you would have to use Net::FTP's quot() function to send your ls command and manually parse the results.

    regarding multiline parsing, the /s regular expression operator might prove useful for matching expressions across newlines.

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      The problem with that is that ls doesn't provide sizes and file types etc. As for regex's, it is not really what I'm doing. I want to be able to say, more or less, if previous line is incomplete, add next line. I know I can do it using temp variable etc, but I was hoping for an easier way.

      BatGnat
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