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in thread Read part of a file over FTP

Yes, this is what I wanted! Thanks very much!

As a follow up question, the buffer now returns the first file in my loop, and I get the text that I want, but fails on the second with the error: Can't call method "read" on an undefined value. However, I have verified that the new filename is correct, so I assume that there must be some problem with reinitializing the dataconn object?

Is there a recommended way to clear a retr() so that a new one can be called? Or is that not even likely to be my problem?

Relevant code is below: The while loop is on a MySQL query return. Note that I haven't done anything with the buffer yet. 
while (@results = $filequery->fetchrow()) {
            $filename="/".$filename;
            print "$filename\n";
            $xfr = $ftp->retr($filename);
            $xfr->read($header,1400);
            print "$header\n";
        }

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Re^3: Read part of a file over FTP
by ronin78 (Novice) on May 27, 2011 at 19:32 UTC
    Note, for the above code, that I have tried the following things to close the retr(): 
    $ftp->close();
$xfr->close();

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    But no joy. I'm just stabbing in the dark, though, so that's not really surprising.
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      Use $xfr->abort; to abort the retr, and $ftp->quit to close the connection.

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      Fantastic! Sorry if my questions are noobish, and thanks very much for the help.

      Matt

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